BTW, whether or not these actions were carried out for military purposes or not. Their were many innocent people killed for no other reason other than living in fairly close location to a military target. Except in the British case, that flying at night if they were hit they would drop their bombs WHEREVER they were and try to return home. (even with the risk of running into their own planes headed towards the same target that they couldn't see in the dark).
As I stated in a previous message a while back. My father was an allied flyer in a B24 that was shot down over Germany in '44 and spent the last 9 months in a German POW camp, being captured by the ss who more or less saved him (and the rest of his crew) from being lynched by the mob that had surrounded them.
Why were these people so enraged?. It couldn't have been the fact that their homes had already been destroyed by indiscriminate bombing could it.?
I am not trying to free the Germans from their war attrocities at all, just to show/post that ALL the allied parties were just as guilty.
Thanks
werfer
[This message has been edited by werfer (edited 03-12-2000).]