During WW1 the majority of areal bombing campaigns consisted of a biplane circling around a target, taking a hand grenade, pulling the pin and throwing it in hopes of hitting something. In WW2 it was basically the same, but replace "biplane" with "bomber" and "hand grenade" with "heavy bombs". The advances in aviation technology after WW1 ushered a new age of combat, which we saw in action in WW2.
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To accompany such rapid development of aviation, there was a great production demand. It started off in Germany with a bunch of factories, but production soon shifted to maximum overdrive to accompany the needs of the war and basically every country with an air force needed to mass produce airplanes. High altitude bombers, nicknamed "flying fortress" were armed with machine guns all around and carried a heck of a cargo. It brought heavy destruction to the field but had accuracy issues.
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