Payback for RAF bombings of cities in the Ruhr Valley during the spring and summer of 1940.
Destroying staging areas, which imo largely ends the discussion.
6 posted on 04/12/2005 4:52:32 PM PDT by SJackson
(You simply have to accept the fact that we are all corrupt-Mahmud Abbas to senior UN official, 1996)
The RAF used area bombardments from beginning to end. The RAF's strategic doctrine was based on destroying the will of the enemy civilian population, thus Dresden.