On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:21:16AM -0500, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Michael Perelman wrote:
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> > WW II bombing was mostly directed at military sites;
>
> Michael, I don't think this is at all right. The main strategic goal of
> strategic bombing was enemy morale, and their main targets were not
> civilian infrastructure but civilians themselves: Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo,
> Hiroshima.
>
> The American talked about economic chokepoints for much of the war, but
> after that didn't work and once they had air control they acted exactly
> like the RAF. The Allies dropped 2,700,000 tons of bombs on Germany; 72
> percent were dropped between July 1, 1944 and the collapse of Germany. And
> the major weapon during that period was the incendary bomb. We were
> intentionally slaughtering civilians to make them give up, pure and
> simple. The conclusion drawn after the war was that it didn't work. Any
> more than it V-2's made Londoners want to give up.
>
> Well, okay, Hiroshima and Nagasaki worked. But they're the exception that
> proves the rule.
>
> Michael
>
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