Posted on 10/01/2008 7:53:54 PM PDT by BGHater
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
What about Dresden, Wuppertal and the rest of the Ruhr Valley ????
The 8th Army Air Corp and the RAF, December, 1944
Vonnegut would say, “So it goes.”
Who is to blame? Hitler.
The Frauenkirche has been rebuilt and the Neumarkt area is being rebuilt in traditional style houses. It’s quite nice, actually. 24 hour panorama here:
...but THEY started it!
The hard thing about being a FReeper is that you have to get in on a thread very early to post witty, intellectual responses before others do!
Darn you!
good thing Frank Murtha wasn't around to tell us we're murdering civilians
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält.
Germany, Germany above everything,
Above everything in the world,
When, for protection and defence, it always
takes a brotherly stand together.
Hard to feel sorry for the vast majority who supported genocidal world-war starting racist socialists.
Dr Goebbels: “I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?”
German people: “Ja.”
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
It’s very difficult to acertain exact numbers on a bombing campaign of that scale. Even if we did it today.
And remember that bombing was not incredibly accurate during WWII though the Norton Bomb site did make it better. I remember my grandfather (Nose gunner in B-24s) mentioning that the smaller the target the more ofter it had to be hit to be sure that it was taken out.
It sounds like they really took some time to get a solid numbers on the Dresden firebombing. Good job by them.
Warsaw
Rotterdam
Neat!
Never a good idea ~ he should have waited for the nukes then no one would have found out he burned only a small percentage of those he sought to destroy.
Growing up in Indianapolis I early discovered that there were a good 150,000 people around who had a personal (blood tie) interest in the outcomes in several German cities.
First Cologne ~ Koln ~ Naptown has a Catholic church which is a scale model replica of Den Dom. There's a reason for this.
Secondly, Dresden ~
Thirdly, Dusseldorf ~
Fourth, Frankfurt and its many suburbs.
Strange, eh?
This was the case throughout the American Midwest.
The Germans voted in the Nazis to resolve vexatious economic and monetary problems. They got Hitler. No doubt many Americans think the unknown, inexperienced, untried Democrats led by Obama can fix some of our vexatious economic and monetary problems.
We'll be lucky to have someone 64 years later who gives a damn how Cleveland was burned to the ground or how many millions were turned into dust.
Over 12,000 built, somewhere around 5000 lost, 10-man crews, over 46,000 casualties.
The "clean" air war.
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