[mountainlion]

I don't think there were many military targets in Dresden. My point was really that the Israeli army is showing restraint unlike carpet bombing like used in Europe, Japan and even Viet Nam. Dresden may not be the best example of carpet bombing though.

[flaglady47]

Article is too cute by half. Garbled at best, poorly written at worst.

[SpeakerToAnimals]

I don't think there were many military targets in Dresden.

One of the raids on Dresden by the 8th Air Force hit the rail yards. The yards were packed with trains. It was one of the most precise strikes of the war. The rail yards looked like a lunar landscape.

The trains were full of refugees. Thousands of fleeing civilians died.

From 25,000 feet it is not possible to tell if trains are full of munitions, soldiers or civilians. If I had squeezed the pickle on one of those B-17G bombers, I would have no regrets. Such is war.