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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (10205)	5/28/1999 8:01:00 AM
From: Yaacov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

o 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<< Murmansk was too far up north, and frozen a good part of the year! and the ships were subject to attack by German Wolf-packs and Luftwaffe fron Norweigian ports! Too little and too dangerous! The Persian Corridor was a great help, considering that he war materials had to cross two continentes to Volga and Don. Bombing the German industrial might and cities, as you know, did little to demoralize the Germans, (it killed more civilians than troops!) but began to slow down the German war industry in the second half of the 1944! Without the bombing, the war would have lasted much longer. Killing the German civilians helped to win the war? Yes and no! It deprived Nazi's of qualified German labor and made them to rely on less qualified guest-workers and slave-laborers. Did it break the will of Germans to fight? Hardly!