Aerial Maps and World War One地图和一个空中大战

Despite the fact that World War One was a global conflict that firmly established the balance of power of democratic, capitalist nations, The Great War has been greatly ignored by historians and commentators these days.尽管世界战争冲突,一名是全球均势确立民主、资本主义国家,伟大卫国战争大大忽视了历史学家和评论家这些日子. While images such as those from World War Two and Vietnam are more common in the media these days, footage from World War One is conspicuously absent.而从影象如二战和越南是较常见的媒体这几天片段大战一有共识. It is also fair to state that there is far less surviving footage from the era in existence today.这也是公平的状态,从画面上远不如尚存的时代存在.

World War One was also the first war to stress aerial warfare to a significant degree.世界大战的战争,也是第一个强调空中战很大程度. While most air warfare from the era is associated with ‘dogfights’ and ‘flying aces,’ there was still a great deal of emphasis placed on aerial bombardment based on the coordination of aerial maps.虽然大部分来自空中战时代与'dogfights','飞行尖子,仍有很大空中轰炸的重点放在基于协调空中地图.

Believe it or not, the early days of using aerial maps for World War One purposes were not designed to guide fighter planes, but for the usage of ‘balloon warfare.’ Despite the presence of tremendous aerial maps, the balloons generally did not hit their mark all that often because, well, balloons are hardly a stable transport for aerial bombardment.信不信由你,初期以空中大战地图不是一个目的旨在引导战机但使用'气球战.'尽管存在巨大的空中地图一般的气球未全部命中,常常因为马克,那么气球难以稳定空中运输.

Sadly, aerial maps designed to guide bombers in aerial bombardments (relying on aerial maps) were utilized to coordinate the first ever wide scale bombing of civilian targets a practice that was as equally disturbing as the use of mustard gas in the trench warfare that existed on the ground.可悲地图设计指南轰炸机空中轰炸(依靠空中地图)首次利用坐标大规模轰炸平民目标的做法,是由于使用同样令人不安的芥子气海沟存在对地面战. In January of 1915, German Zeppelins dropped bombs on the United Kingdom and although the civilian death toll was relatively small, the first bombing led to a dangerous precedent as the German military would go on to continually bomb the United Kingdom leading to more civilian casualties and the eventually expansion of targeting civilians, a practice that was used to an extreme significant degree by all sides in World War Two and continued through every conflict in the world up to the present day.1915年元月,德国zeppelins炸弹英国和平民死亡人数虽然相对较少,首次轰炸导致了危险的先例,为德军将继续不断地炸弹美王国导致更多平民伤亡和平民为对象的最终膨胀,实践证明,用了一个极端很大程度上各方继续通过二战在世界每一个冲突到今天.

Our thanks to David Gloss for this insightful article on Aerial Maps and World War One为此,我们感谢蓝光泽见地文章地图和空中大战之一

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