"British Bombing Strategy in World War Two" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Dec 2019 9:03 p.m. PST |
"More than half a century later, the strategic bombing campaign continues to nag the national conscience. Some historians go as far as to suggest that by bombing cities the British 'descended to the enemy's level' (John Keegan). This is, of course, an exaggeration. The bombing of Dresden cannot be equalled with the horrors of Auschwitz…"
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 ochoin  | 22 Dec 2019 4:30 a.m. PST |
It's hard to argue "morality" when your Nazi opponents were genocidal butchers & the Germans were complicit in their rise & retention of power. A more interesting question is whether the bombing campaign was worth the men & machines used for it. I know the cognoscenti (eg Max Horton)believed that if some of the effort was channelled towards Coastal Command & even bombing the Uboat pens in France, the result would have paid dividends. |
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