Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "The Drydock - Episode 035" video.

With regard to various airforces being involved in their own countries naval airforce, I did read a book sometime ago by an RAF pilot who flew in the 20s and 30s as well as WW2 and he spent some time flying with the Royal Navy. Because carrier landings required specialist training he did find it difficult and was of a mind that the Royal Navy should have its own aircraft and pilots. Unfortunately I cannot remember the books name nor that of the author, but I did find his observations interesting because at that time I assumed that because as the navy had its own carriers they also had their own pilots. I did know about the RAF being made up of the Royal Flying Corp and the Royal Navy Air Service in 1918 but I had assumed that the Fleet Air Arm had been set up for carrier based aircraft and was not part of the RAF still. I then learnt through this book that the Fleet Air Arm did not become independent until 1937. All of this did effect the Royal Navy's aircraft choices up until that time.
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@chocolatecatdad thanks, Jay. The thing to remember is that this was a new form of warfare. Whereas the Britsh and Americans overplayed strategic bombing and its capabilities the Germans had reason to regreat not having that option. Especially at targets beyond the range of their twin engined bombers when they wanted to attack Soviet power generation plants. Today one aircraft can achieve what a thousand bomber raid would have been sent to do, and probably have failed. An insight into the thinking behind one person's motivations for mass bombing of German towns and cities in WW2 can be seen in the words of an American USAAF general, who said in 1945 what for most of the fifty years up to that point Germany had either been a threat to or at war with the rest of the world. And it was his aim they nevr would be again.
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