Bombing to Surrender : The Contribution of Airpower to the Collapse of Italy, 1943

By Major Philip A. Smith, USAF

Book Id: WPLBN0002170723
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Title:	Bombing to Surrender : The Contribution of Airpower to the Collapse of Italy, 1943
Author:	Major Philip A. Smith, USAF
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, Airpower
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Publisher:	Air University Press

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Citation APA MLA Chicago Philip A. Smith, Usa, B. M. (n.d.). Bombing to Surrender : The Contribution of Airpower to the Collapse of Italy, 1943. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
This study reveals how airpower made four contributions to the collapse of Italy. First, airpower shaped the grand strategy of the western Allied powers in 1943. Second, mainland attacks against rail marshaling yards, ports, and airfields did indirectly contribute militarily to Operations Husky and Avalanche. Third, both American and British strategic bombing contributed to the psychological decapitation and fall of the Fascist government on 25 July 1943. Finally, airpower coerced and aided the interim Marshal Pietro Badoglio’s government to surrender unconditionally and escape to the Allies on 9 September.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . 1 AN UNEXAMINED VICTORY . . . . . 3 WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH . . . . . 7 A TALE OF TWO TIGERS . . . . . 19 WHEN IN ROME . . . . 37 THE DENOUEMENT OF DEFEAT . . . . 57 NO CROWING FOR A NEW DAWN . . . . . 71