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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (135895)	6/7/2004 11:12:31 AM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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...

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (135895)	6/7/2004 5:08:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<And even during WWII, the US relied far more upon pinpoint bombing in Europe to attack military and industrial targets> My father, who spent 4 years in the war, used to laugh about American ability to "drop a bomb in a barrel". Missing by a mile was apparently the norm. As seen on tv, yesterday, the bombing on D-day was bad, with a lot of cattle and French farmers having bombs rained down on them, but coastal defences were missed. I think "pinpoint" is an exaggeration. It's only with the cunning guidance systems which can fly the bomb in a window that "pin-point" has become a valid description. It really is pin-point now. Mqurice