To: cripplecreek
London was hurt. Coventry was wiped out. If the British had revenge on their minds it was Coventry that drove them. And besides revenge turning a city into an inferno in sight of the Red Army might have been thought a useful demonstration.
42 posted on
02/15/2015 5:48:50 AM PST by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: katana
Churchill sacrificed Coventry to preserve the secret of "Ultra". Bletchley Park knew when the Luftwaffe was coming to bomb Coventry but Churchill thought tipping off the RAF would make it obvious that they knew in advance and German comms were compromised, too risky.
44 posted on
02/15/2015 5:56:15 AM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: katana
"London was hurt. Coventry was wiped out."
Don't forget the shining examples of restraint of what the Germans did to those cities in Poland before they marched in.
59 posted on
02/15/2015 6:40:25 AM PST by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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