Great Britain Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Overview
| Works: | 657 works in 1,450 publications in 3 languages and 30,285 library holdings |
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| Genres: | History Death registers Technical reports Periodicals |
| Classifications: | TL555, 940.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Great Britain
- Bomber command by Max Hastings( Book )
- The science of bombing : operational research in RAF Bomber Command by Randall T Wakelam( )
- Reaching for the stars : a new history of Bomber Command in World War II by Mark Connelly( )
- The relentless offensive : war and Bomber Command 1939-1945 by Roy Irons( )
- The RAF pathfinders : Bomber command's elite squadrons by Martyn Chorlton( )
- Foudre et dévastation : les bombardements alliés sur l'Allemagne 1942-1945 by Randall Hansen( )
- Enemy coast ahead by Guy Gibson( Book )
- Fire and fury : the Allied bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 by Randall Hansen( Book )
- Tail-end Charlies : the last battles of the bomber war, 1944-45 by John Nichol( Book )
- The hardest victory : RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War by Denis Richards( Book )
- The Berlin raids : R.A.F. bomber command winter, 1943-44 by Martin Middlebrook( Book )
- Courage and air warfare : the Allied aircrew experience in the Second World War by Mark K Wells( Book )
- Bomber boys : fighting back, 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop( Book )
- The Bomber Command war diaries : an operational reference book, 1939-1945 by Martin Middlebrook( Book )
- Lancaster skies by Callum Burn( Visual )
- Despatch on war operations, 23rd February, 1942, to 8th May, 1945 by Arthur Travers Harris( Book )
- Men of air : the courage and sacrifice of Bomber Command in World War II by Kevin Wilson( Book )
- Flying into hell : the bomber command offensive as seen through the experiences of twenty crews by Mel Rolfe( )
- Bomber Harris : his life and times : the biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur Harris, the wartime chief of Bomber Command by Henry Probert( Book )
- RAF Bomber Command : reflections of war by Martin W Bowman( )
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Most widely held works by
Great Britain
From Hull, hell and Halifax : an illustrated history of No. 4 Group, 1937-1948 by
Chris Blanchett(
Book
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1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 46 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the story of an incredible effort by the Yorkshire-based No. 4 Group of RAF Bomber Command, over an eleven year period that encompassed the Second World War..."--Book jacket
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 46 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the story of an incredible effort by the Yorkshire-based No. 4 Group of RAF Bomber Command, over an eleven year period that encompassed the Second World War..."--Book jacket
Final reports on operations--night raids by
Great Britain(
Book
)
2 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Jazz in Britain, 1919-1950(
Recording
)
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
War in the ether, Europe 1939-1945 : radio countermeasures in Bomber Command : an historical note(
Book
)
2 editions published between 1945 and 1947 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published between 1945 and 1947 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
No. 1 group: Roll of honour, 1939-1945 by
Great Britain(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1950 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1950 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Plan der Stadt Waldenburg i./Schls by
Great Britain(
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in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
No. 5 group: Roll of honour, 1939-1945 by
Great Britain(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1950 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
1 edition published in 1950 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
Handbook of aerial systems for use on high frequencies by
Great Britain(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1942 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
1 edition published in 1942 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
Roll of honour 1939-1945 by
Great Britain(
Book
)
in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
Planned seeing : some psychological experiments by
Frederic C Bartlett(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1948 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
"Many wartime problems in the Services called for careful selection of personnel, but as this monograph shows, psychological investigations of human behavior need not necessarily be restricted to problems in the allocation of manpower. Where a high proportion of the candidates would have to be rejected were the required standard of working efficiency to be achieved solely by personnel selection, it may be possible to ensure that the work is well done by adjusting the balance between the requirements of the task and the capabilities of the worker by applying either the technique of work design or that of synthetic training. Accurate measures of human performance taken from men on the work itself, or from some simulation of the actual situation, can often detect features in the task which are causing difficulty. In some cases it is practicable to remove such difficulties by altering the design of the working conditions, as in the case of the Operations Rooms of Fighter Command, where human efficiency was greatly affected by apparently minor changes in the features of the Control Room equipment. A slight increase in the size of some critical detail often meant that everyone looking at the plotting table was able to see the display clearly and accurately. In other cases, however, visual difficulties occurred but were quite unavoidable, as in bomb-aiming, where air bombers had to estimate by eye the average position of a number of target indicators. For military reasons the physical characteristics of the display could not be altered in any way; again controlled human experiments were required to discover the main causes of the difficulties experienced, to determine which features of the real-life situation had to be incorporated in the synthetic training situation. As a result of these experiments, a training apparatus was devised which was officially adopted for synthetic training in Bomber Command. Whether the difficulties are removed by re-designing working conditions, or are overcome by intensive synthetic training, any improvements practicable will allow of a higher proportion of average or below average men to be employed. By applying these principles the Service is able to make the best use of the manpower available by up-grading personnel so that they can work efficiently at tasks which had previously presented some difficulty. These experiments were carried out by Dr. N.H. Mackworth between 1943 and 1945 under the general guidance of Sir Frederic Bartlett, Head of the Psychology Laboratory, Cambridge University, in close association with the Flying Personnel Research Committee and with the Operational Research Sections of Fighter Command and Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force."--Foreword
1 edition published in 1948 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide
"Many wartime problems in the Services called for careful selection of personnel, but as this monograph shows, psychological investigations of human behavior need not necessarily be restricted to problems in the allocation of manpower. Where a high proportion of the candidates would have to be rejected were the required standard of working efficiency to be achieved solely by personnel selection, it may be possible to ensure that the work is well done by adjusting the balance between the requirements of the task and the capabilities of the worker by applying either the technique of work design or that of synthetic training. Accurate measures of human performance taken from men on the work itself, or from some simulation of the actual situation, can often detect features in the task which are causing difficulty. In some cases it is practicable to remove such difficulties by altering the design of the working conditions, as in the case of the Operations Rooms of Fighter Command, where human efficiency was greatly affected by apparently minor changes in the features of the Control Room equipment. A slight increase in the size of some critical detail often meant that everyone looking at the plotting table was able to see the display clearly and accurately. In other cases, however, visual difficulties occurred but were quite unavoidable, as in bomb-aiming, where air bombers had to estimate by eye the average position of a number of target indicators. For military reasons the physical characteristics of the display could not be altered in any way; again controlled human experiments were required to discover the main causes of the difficulties experienced, to determine which features of the real-life situation had to be incorporated in the synthetic training situation. As a result of these experiments, a training apparatus was devised which was officially adopted for synthetic training in Bomber Command. Whether the difficulties are removed by re-designing working conditions, or are overcome by intensive synthetic training, any improvements practicable will allow of a higher proportion of average or below average men to be employed. By applying these principles the Service is able to make the best use of the manpower available by up-grading personnel so that they can work efficiently at tasks which had previously presented some difficulty. These experiments were carried out by Dr. N.H. Mackworth between 1943 and 1945 under the general guidance of Sir Frederic Bartlett, Head of the Psychology Laboratory, Cambridge University, in close association with the Flying Personnel Research Committee and with the Operational Research Sections of Fighter Command and Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force."--Foreword
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Related Identities
- Harris, Arthur Travers Sir 1892-1984 Author
- Great Britain Royal Air Force
- Hastings, Max Author
- Wakelam, Randall T. (Randall Thomas) 1953- Author
- Bowman, Martin W. Author
- Connelly, Mark Author
- Irons, Roy Author
- Hansen, Randall Author
- Middlebrook, Martin 1932- Author
- Rolfe, Mel Author
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Strike Command
Bomber Command, R. A. F.
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