(February 6, 2016 at 2:43 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(February 6, 2016 at 2:18 pm)abaris Wrote: I don't know as much about the Japanese war as I do about Europe. In Europe, the US airforce was less indiscriminate as the British. Harris' outspoken goal was to unleash terror on civilians. The American goal was precision bombing, whatever that meant with the equipment they had back then. Yes, the participated in the bombing of Dresden, but they weren't the ones working on the firestorm, which killed most of the civilians. That again was a british recipe.
I think the difference was in part racism. The Japanese weren't white. The Japanese were also racist. The Japanese rules of engagement were more brutal than those in Europe. It was a nastier war in the Pacific, on both sides.
The pacific did suck pretty bad, but then again, the Eastern front was also pretty horrific at times. I don't think that either one can really be considered worse than the other, because in the end, a lot of people died in both Europe and the Pacific.
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