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To: Dr. Id who wrote (135904)	6/7/2004 3:25:43 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Perhaps the most senseless Allied act of the war was the firebombing of Dresden, a German cultural capital of no great military value. Yep... you got me there.. I hadn't realized that American bombers were involved in that raid. I had believed it was only the British, who regularly conducted nightime fire bombing.. And I would agree.. there was no apparently military necessity for attacking the city outside of some non-credible excuse that we were doing it to help the Russians by destroying German communications lines. But as they say.. to every rule, there's an exception or two.. Btw, do you know why the Americans resorted to firebombing in Japan? Hawk