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An air raid does not have to be "strategic bombing"
An air raid does not have to be "strategic bombing".
Where does that idea come from?
An air raid can be carried out to damage or eliminate an enemy outpost or a isolated fort or radar station.
An air raid can be carried out simply for its nuisance value against an enemy target of any kind. Consider "Washing Machine Charlie", who carried out a long series of nuisance air raids against American Marines, soldiers, and airmen on
Guadalcanal.
During the first half of 1942, Japanese Navy flying boats carried out nuisance air raids against the Americans on
Oahu,
Hawaii, via the
French Frigate Shoals. Nothing was accomplished by those nuisance raids except for blowing up grassy fields and annoying the Americans. Nevertheless, air raids they were.
Admiral
Chester Nimitz put an end to those air raids by first, dispatching a
destroyer or two to the French Frigate Shoals, and then by having
naval mines planted there. This happened before the
Battle of Midway. (June 4 - 6, 1942) 98.67.108.12 (
talk) 18:29, 27 August 2012 (UTC)reply
This redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Disambiguation, an attempt to structure and organize all
disambiguation pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, you can edit the page attached to this talk page, or visit the
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discussion.DisambiguationWikipedia:WikiProject DisambiguationTemplate:WikiProject DisambiguationDisambiguation articles
An air raid does not have to be "strategic bombing"
An air raid does not have to be "strategic bombing".
Where does that idea come from?
An air raid can be carried out to damage or eliminate an enemy outpost or a isolated fort or radar station.
An air raid can be carried out simply for its nuisance value against an enemy target of any kind. Consider "Washing Machine Charlie", who carried out a long series of nuisance air raids against American Marines, soldiers, and airmen on
Guadalcanal.
During the first half of 1942, Japanese Navy flying boats carried out nuisance air raids against the Americans on
Oahu,
Hawaii, via the
French Frigate Shoals. Nothing was accomplished by those nuisance raids except for blowing up grassy fields and annoying the Americans. Nevertheless, air raids they were.
Admiral
Chester Nimitz put an end to those air raids by first, dispatching a
destroyer or two to the French Frigate Shoals, and then by having
naval mines planted there. This happened before the
Battle of Midway. (June 4 - 6, 1942) 98.67.108.12 (
talk) 18:29, 27 August 2012 (UTC)reply
