[Dinsdale]

So was 'Bomber' Harris a Terrorist?

Lemay?

By your definition they both were. (Both supported area bombardment which is deliberatly attacking civilians and civilian property.)

It really is a tricky definition.

[cake_crumb]

Terrorists are those who use terror to control a population for their personal profit and personal power.

[elfman2]

"It really is a tricky definition."

Unless the civilian deaths were peripheral to an attempt to destroy industry primarily supporting the military, which from what little I know they weren't, the Harris's and Lemay's bombings were terrorist. That may be difficult to accept, but I don’t see how it’s tricky.