Half way through World War II, the United States Army Air Force began its own bombing missions over Germany. While the Royal Air Force relied on the cover of darkness to carry out its aerial raids, the USAAF preferred to attack by daylight, claiming greater accuracy and lesser threat to civilians. Although both strategies had their advantages and drawbacks, the overall impact of this relentless pounding of German cities and industries had a telling effect on the outcome of the war. The German industry was reduced to rubble.The post World War II era posed a new challenge to the victorious American Admistration. Paradoxically, American planners were looking for ways to repair and reconstruct the very country which their own bombers had so effectively destroyed only a few months earlier. The wheels of German industry had come to a standstill and they had to set them rolling again! Witness how this was done on this rare, amazing and historic video!
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