We bombed the Zemun Aerodrome, the Belgrade rail marshalling yards, and the industrail area of Belgrade.
All military targets
Bombing being what it was back then, not all targets were hit with as much accuracy as we'd have liked - the Schweinfurt raid in 1943, for example, resulted in bombs hitting the ground 2 miles away from the intended target. So when you pitch a bitch about us missing our target on Easter in Belgrade by 600 yards, as the inquiry General Spaatz held into the matter found out, you're just going to have to realize that you need to be more of a man about it, like, say, the French, who lost between 15k to 20k civilians in the bombing leading up to D-Day, yet realize that what we were doing had a purpose directly related to defeating the Nazis.
As to your whining about how the Serbs got screwed after the war, Mihailovic made the mistake of revealing his 'Greater Serbia' aspirations to his British liason, in effect stating that he was going to deal with his non-Serb countrymen before taking the war to the Germans.
In essence, Mihailovic was just a stupid Serb, mired in the prejudices and grudges of his people, and willing to act upon them with bloody effect. Unfortunately, there are too many like him still around today.
UXO was found with inscription "happy Easter" written in Serbian
Well it makes perfect sense, doesn't it - the USAAF taught all it's recruits Serbian just so they could taunt the Serbs, knowing that some professional victims would make hay of it 60 years later. As we were excluding Serbian Americans from our military, it couldn't have been one of them expressing his feelings towards the German occupiers of his country, could it DTA.
Belgrade and Zemun are located on the confluence of Sava and Danube rivers and unmistakable for target acquisition. (like gleaming silver T) Alleged targets were not hit.
>>>>Bombing being what it was back then, not all targets were hit with as much accuracy as we'd have liked - the Schweinfurt raid in 1943, for example, resulted in bombs hitting the ground 2 miles away from the intended target.<<<
Official USAAF reports show that special Norden ordnance sight enabled bombers to drop ordnance with such precission, colloquially "into pickle barrel". Do you want to say that USAAF lied ? If they did lie about Norden sights, on what grounds why we should believe into other reports?
>>>>So when you pitch a bitch about us missing our target on Easter in Belgrade by 600 yards, as the inquiry General Spaatz held into the matter found out, you're just going to have to realize that you need to be more of a man about it, like, say, the French, who lost between 15k to 20k civilians in the bombing leading up to D-Day, yet realize that what we were doing had a purpose directly related to defeating the Nazis.<<<<<
USAAF and RAF terror bombing of Serbian town did no harm to occupying German forces. This is in stark contrast with Operation Overlord. French did not die in vain. Serbs did die to allow easier Communist conquest.
>>>>In essence, Mihailovic was just a stupid Serb, mired in the prejudices and grudges of his people, and willing to act upon them with bloody effect. <<<<<<
FInally we agree on something. Before the war Mihailovic was the head of Intelligence Department of Yugoslav Army. But obviously he had no clue what Brits were doing in front of his nose, he had no clue who Tito was and had no clue that Brits are to ditch King Peter in favor of Tito. He was incompetent person who came at the top in the most dangerous time for Serbs.
>>>>Well it makes perfect sense, doesn't it - the USAAF taught all it's recruits Serbian just so they could taunt the Serbs, knowing that some professional victims would make hay of it 60 years later. As we were excluding Serbian Americans from our military, it couldn't have been one of them expressing his feelings towards the German occupiers of his country, could it DTA<<<<
It was an ORTHODOX EASTER, stupid. Germans are Protestants, Calvinists and RC. Bombs were intended to hit Serbs on THEIR EASTER. Any Serbian speaking RC or Communist could write such blasphemy.
>>>>As we were excluding Serbian Americans from our military,<<<<<
What are you talking about? Serb Americans earned Congressional Medals of Honor and Purple Hearts for WWII service.