Recent content by wokelly

I do already have the raid reports per lancasterbombersinfo's webmaster sending me high res copies. However they don't quite have the level of detail the spread sheet does. In particular bomber altitudes and the quantieis and types of bombs. The Raid reports don't mention altitudes for the most...

Holy... that is a ton of info. Where did you collect it all from?

Using the second bomb plotting map which has a lot more plots but no timings, I've yellowed out the concentrations of bombing and used orange circles to identify all the pathfinder marks. I also traced out the aiming circles, each circle being a mile from the next. The final map: So...

The youtube channels "Montemayor" and "Operations Room" both have excellent animated recreations of the Battle of Midway. I highly recommend checking out their videos. I couldn't do any better than that to be honest, and I'm not knowledgeable on the United States Navy anyways.

So the bombing map now. Putting two different bomb plotting map over the topographical map. This way I can roughly plot bomb fall and also have it evolved over the raid. Based off the written report the raid started off pretty accurately, but about 15 minutes in it began to drift significantly...

German night fighters patrolling their "Himmelbett" boxes. An estimated 115 night fighters were up this night (i'm not adding 115 night fighters in blender), but all "chained" to their boxes. By this point the Luftwaffe was starting to bring systems online to control multiple fighters in each...

Yeah fair enough. I know little about the USAAF raids on Japan, so the descriptions of the daylight raids did seem rather at odds with my perception of the low altitude night raids. Some of the raids looked like a mix of area and precision attacks, with part of the force trying to hit specific...

To a certain extent. A lot of what I use here will be interchangable with the other RAF raids. Same maps, same models, same effects. I should be able to reuse a lot of stuff I setup on the first map. Only real difference will be the crash markers and the routing, plus the actual bombing map...

Appreciate you looking regardless.

Were the 21,000 ft attacks not all daylight attacks? It looked like the one night attack in June was at low level (6 to 9,000 ft), and then the daylight attacks that followed were all at 20,000+ ft. I would guess it must have been related to the flak defences and Japanese fighters. Defenses were...

First time. But quite enjoyed reading it. Thanks for posting.

I've got a couple of books on Hamburg, including Middlebook's. Definitely a worthwhile source, especially for first hand accounts and stories I can tie into the video.

For my youtube channel I'm aiming to do a documentary on the six Anglo-American bombing raids on Hamburg in the summer of 1943, which included the (in)famous firestorm that killed 40,000 people. The aim will be to tell the story of the crews, civilians, the plans and the results and the...

Ah yes, I know that feeling.

I have the 492nd's "unit history" so to speak from Maxwell Alabama Air Force Historical Research Agency. The raids on coastal targets in France was a German controlled gun battery, and the 492nd raids were essentially test runs to get experience. The 492nd was trained up by RAF Bomber Command...