[68skylark]

To displace them required that US forces bomb a densely-populated church area without mercy, inflicting thousands of civilian casualties.

That's not the way I heard it. The abbey was unoccupied by the Germans, until the U.S. made a huge blunder and bombed it into ruins. The Germans then occupied the ruins, which made perfect defensive positions and greatly increased allied casualties.

[gaijin]

Yes, I remember that that was part of it. That the more it got bombed, the easier it was for the Germans to defend.

And that for some reason the US had no problem bombing the crap out of this huge church, and that some people saw this as really nasty.

PLEASE DO NOT PILE ON, I LOVE THE USA.