—” She is priceless.”
“I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.”
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris
Bingo. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. After Coventry, it was gloves off for the RAF. I am a great admirer of Air Marshal Harris. Sad to say that many of the ignorant youth of the UK are giving monuments of Harris the Robert E. Lee treatment. If they know any history, they only know some leftist fairy-tale version.