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To: HomerBohn

The Luftwaffe were the first to use incendiary bombs when they hit Coventry...

Being in the RAF and bombing the crap out of Nazis during World War II was not an easy job mate, from Wikipedia...

Bomber Command crews also suffered an extremely high casualty rate: 55,573 killed out of a total of 125,000 aircrew (a 44.4% death rate), a further 8,403 were wounded in action and 9,838 became prisoners of war.


64 posted on 02/15/2015 6:49:41 AM PST by Geronimo
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To: Geronimo
The Luftwaffe were the first to use incendiary bombs when they hit Coventry...

Au contraire, mon ami.

(A bit of French lingo there to show my fondness for little froggies.)

The first incendiary bombs were first used by the UK and were dropped on the German port city of Emden.

The statistics you use are all well and good, but the fact remains that targeting civilian centers was originated by the UK.

74 posted on 02/15/2015 7:14:15 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: Geronimo

That is why RAF personnel would sometimes referred to Air Marshal Arthur Harris as Butch Harris. Short for butcher.


83 posted on 02/15/2015 8:55:50 AM PST by X Fretensis (IW)
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