Carpet bombing
Appearance
The phrase carpet bombing refers to the use of huge numbers of unguided gravity bombs, either to ensure the certain destruction of a single target, or as a means of mass destruction.
Subjects to cover:
- Blitzkrieg and the bombing of London
- Bomber Harris and the bombing of Dresden
- "strategic bombing" and its failure to dent German morale
- ineffectiveness of carpet bombing in the Vietnam War