二战后期,盟军为开辟第二战场作准备,想利用轰炸,尽可能多地摧毁德军的工业设施及军事目标,同时减少自己空中力量的损失。而要同时达到上述两个目标,困难很大,由于美国本土与德国远隔重洋,空军只能部署在英国,北非等少数地域,而需要打击的德军目标几乎遍布整个欧洲。若进行传统意义上的重点轰炸,又面临德军强大的防空体系。美空军长途奔袭,或者劳而无功,或者损兵折戟。为此,盟军组织了包括统计学家在内的参谋智囊团,寻求 In the latter part of World War II, the Allies prepared for the opening up of the second battlefield and wanted to use the bombing to destroy as many German industrial facilities and military targets as possible while reducing the loss of their own airpower. However, it is very difficult to achieve the above two goals at the same time. Since the United States and Germany are separated by oceans, the Air Force can only be deployed in a few areas such as Britain and North Africa, and the Germans that need to combat almost all over Europe. If carried out in the traditional sense of the key bombing, but also facing a strong German air defense system. US Air Force long-range raid, or relentless work, or destroy soldier halt. To this end, the Allied forces organized a staff think tank, including statisticians, to seek