And helped bring about the end of the war. His class is about 55 minutes. Have a seat, thanks. All right. Folks, todays lesson is a combined bomber offensive. Ive only got about 50 minutes to talk to you about something thats very important. Not just in terms of military history and air power history in terms of history of our air force. Were going to talk about any number of things. Im going to get through it. Youre going to have follow along and take notes. Some of these overheads are busy. So youre going to take down the most important features. Were going to talk about the bomber barons. A little bit about Bomber Command air war from 1935 to 19 45. Remember we came into the war from the british point of view relatively late. And then well summarize what the overall impact of the combined bomber offensive. We call it combined because this is a mutual effort on the part of Great Britain and the United States. Heres the takeaway. Heres the thesis for today. The combined bomber america