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To: Yaacov who wrote (10128)	5/28/1999 1:15:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) of 17770

>>United Sates and Great Britain carpet bombed Germany from 1943 to 1945. What do you say about that! The German cities were bombed and and the civilians were targeted! You certainly have to know about that! What do you think?<< Do you think the Allied bombing was a major factor in the allied victory? I think that keeping Murmansk and the Persian railroads open - for example - may have played a larger part. As an aside, did you know that fully 25% of American casualties in WW2 were in the European air war? I used to think it was a cakewalk bombing tactical targets such as tanks and the like, until I saw some footage and realized the hail of anti-aircraft fire which seemed to greet every air attack. There is something to be said in any case for the fact that the Allied strategic bombing tied down so much of the luftwaffe in air defense. One of my uncles flew in 25 separate B-17 raids over Germany... I think that the air crews got to go home if they made it through that many. >>Hiroshima was nuked by the United States, to save one million allied lives that would have been the cost of invasing Japan! So, what do you think abou that! Are you ashmed? << I think that Japan could have been starved out. I still harbor the contention that the a-bomb was used as a signal to the Russians so that they might be awed by this new weapon and halt their advance through Manchuria, which had started not long before and was going very "smoothly" (the Japanese were being crushed) up until then. The russians halted their advance upon hearing the news of the new weapon, didn't they? In any case Japanese medium tanks invented during the '30s and not upgraded during the course of the war didn't hold up very well against formations of T-34/85s. As for the guilt of battlefield commanders (air force generals included), is it a commonly accepted fact that "all is fair in love and war" or is that a bit of a myth in and of itself? FWIW Andy

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