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To: Restorer
"It didn't just seem to be. It was indiscriminate."

Maybe indescriminate, but not innacurate.

As LT Beldon Cooper in his book "Deathtraps" on his days in WWII in Army Ordinance. His account of entering Cologne (after knocking out a stubborn Panther tank, with a brand new Pershing tank) said that all of the city was rubble with the exception of the famous Koln Cathedral, and the Ford Motor Company factory...

20 posted on 08/07/2006 12:54:52 PM PDT by AmericanDave (Over it's NOT, till over it IS....... Yoda Berra)
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To: AmericanDave

I guess it depends on your definition of "accurate." Most of these bombs were considered "on target" if they hit within one-half mile of where they were supposed to hit.


23 posted on 08/07/2006 1:27:07 PM PDT by Restorer
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