[hinckley buzzard]

The Lancaster bomb load was large but consigned to highly inaccurate and ineffective night time carpet bombing. They used primarily incendiary bombs, as opposed to explosives, for a reason.

Let us be honest, the carpet bombing was essentially a terror tactic which failed, not a military strategic offensive as was the American precision daylight attacks against military targets. In fact the Brits opposed the American strategy, and one wonders why, given the results.

[jmacusa]

As far as ‘’carpet bombing’’ or ‘’area bombing’’ as the RAF called it being a failed terror tactic, keep in mind it was the Luftwaffe that first engaged in it. Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry to name a few. To the average Briton it didn’t matter much at all if ‘’Jerri’’ and his wife and kids and what any other German was getting theirs so long as, as the Brits put it ‘’We’re giving it to them back!’’.