You even smear your own Dad: the 8th Air Force heroically bombed in broad daylight - unlike the Brits who bombed at night and their objective was to wreck cities - to precisely hit military targets. The mission at Schweinfurt was to hit the German ball bearing factories and Regensburg to attack the Messerschmitt factory. They took huge losses to fighters and flak to hit those targets and spare as many civilians as possible. They were heroes in the true sense of the word - but you aren’t: you were of the age to serve in Vietnam, weren’t you? You hid out and now you justify things by trying to tar all of us who did fight. Here I just thought you were a lefty troll but I now I know you for who you really are - a coward who didn’t risk anything and even smears his own Father and the valiant aviators who flew with him.
I am very proud of my father and the 8th AF. Strategic bombing by the USAAF and RAF was only effective because they carpeted whole cities round the clock. It diminished civilians morale, destroyed housing, industry and infasturcture.
unlike the Brits who bombed at night and their objective was to wreck cities - to precisely hit military targets.
Precision bombing in WW2 really did not exist.
USAAF crews flew in a formation of 36 aircraft 2,340 feet wide 900 feet from top to bottom and 640 feet from front to back, all dropping their bombs at the same time as the leader. Ignoring the height differences you end up with a bomb pattern 2340 feet wide and 640 feet deep.
Only 7% of all bombs dropped by the Eighth Air Force in 1944 hit within 1,000 feet of their aim point.
USAAF bombing was no more accurate than RAF bombing.
you were of the age to serve in Vietnam, weren’t you
No. I was born in 1963. 12 years old when the red flag was raised on Hanoi. Joined the Navy in 1981 and retired in 2006.