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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (135895)	6/7/2004 11:12:31 AM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (1) of 281500

And even during WWII, the US relied far more upon pinpoint bombing in Europe to attack military and industrial targets. It was only in Japan that we deliberately targeted civilians. Did you forget the firebombing of Dresden? "Perhaps the most senseless Allied act of the war was the firebombing of Dresden, a German cultural capital of no great military value. Dresden might have been hit in early 1945 because the Allies had simply run out of fresh targets to bomb. The British Royal Air Force did most of the damage, but the Americans participated in the destruction of over 30,000 people by fire and suffocation. The novelist Kurt Vonnegut was there and he said that the fire bombing of Dresden didn't shorten the war by one minute. " learner.org Who are you, anyway...the Hawk of Disinformation? I thought that you spend a lot of time making sure you get your facts right...

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