RE: Why the USA is a disgrace
February 6, 2016 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2016 at 2:57 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 6, 2016 at 2:18 pm)abaris Wrote:(February 6, 2016 at 2:11 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: The US airfleet was almost half the planes that participated in the mass carpet bombing of Dresden in Germany, which was clearly aimed at civilians.
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.
The American dropped HE demolition bombs mixed with incendiaries at Dresden. How precise were their intentions?
To make it clear: the HE bombs were delayed-fuse. The idea was to set the building alight with the incendiaries, and then when the HE bomb went off, it would fling burning embers and spread the fire.