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In Reply to: and... posted by ltman on February 9, 2024 at 22:52:06:
His father served in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. The unit he served surrender to the Soviets on VE Day. Of all the men in his company at the start of the war, he was the only one who survived till the end.
I'm a pacifist. Studying history made me that way. But when countries do go to war, they can't pull punches if they want to win, and everybody who serves the economy of the enemy is essentially a combatant.
The real tragedy of the second world war strategic bombing campaign is that it didn't shorten the war, at least not by destroying Germany's vital production facilities. It still had to be won by armies on the ground. The lives of Allied airmen and the lives of the civilians in the cities they bombed, those folks died pretty much for nothing. The war in Europe wasn't going to end until Hitler was dead. It didn't matter how many cities were reduced to rubble.
By 1944, the USAAF bomber mafia had pretty much abandoned the idea of precision bombing ball-bearing factories and aircraft plants, and attacked those targets as a way to fight a war of attrition against the Luftwaffe.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
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Follow Ups
- My friend's mom lived through bombings in Bremen. - ghost of olddude55 02/10/2406:41:55 02/10/24 (2)
- RE: My friend's mom lived through bombings in Bremen. - ltman 10:20:58 02/10/24 (1)
- Like everything else, there's context. - ghost of olddude55 10:58:16 02/10/24 (0)
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