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 Biplanes and
Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I
George K. Williams
1999, 330 pages
ISBN: 1-58566-073-6
$25.00
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Colonel Williams presents a comprehensive study of British
bombing efforts in the Great War. He contends that the official version of costs
and results underplays the costs while overplaying the results. Supported by
postwar findings of both US and British evaluation teams, he argues that British
bombing efforts were significantly less effective than heretofore believed.
Colonel Williams also presents a strong argument that German air defenses caused
considerably less damage to British forces than pilot error, malfunctioning
aircraft, and bad weather. That we believed otherwise supports the notion that
British bombing raids had forced Germany to transfer significant air assets to
defend against them. Williams, however, found no evidence that any such transfer
occurred. Actual results, Colonel Williams argues, stand in strong contrast to
claimed results.
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