[RetiredArmy]

FIRST, lets talk about a couple of things straight about this "idea"; Jorge Bushwinski had. ONE, at the time, 1943-44 when the US was bombing Germany, the Army Air Force was flying off England to Germany and hitting as far as Berlin and returning to England. I don't think the B17s could have made it all the way to Poland to bomb and return to England. The rates of losses were bad enough because of the lack of fighter protection. It took D-Day for our fighters to be able to better protect the bombers over the mainland. There would have been no fighter protection for the bombers to travel on to Poland for a bombing run on a death camp that FDR ignored anyway, and returned. The losses would have probably doubled because of the lack of fighter protection. And, secondly, the master mind Jorge forgets that BOMBING Auschwitz WOULD HAVE KILLED THE JEWS!!! that were being held there. So, Jorge is saying it was better to bomb them to death than the Nazi’s too gas them??? Huh???

[investigateworld]

Actually we did have P-51's over Berlin by Jan - Feb, 1944 via using drop tanks.

But we were still at a clumsy stage, the much vaunted Norden bomb-sight just wasn't up to putting bombs on a specific target.

The Army Air Corp knew it too, in fact checking crew manifests for raids in 44 -45 (B-17 and B-24) one will see that frequently instead of listing a bombardier, there is a "Nose Gunner", always a trained enlisted man in that position.

I can't believe that this wasn't discussed during his USAF flight training.

[investigateworld]

Actually we did have P-51's over Berlin by Jan - Feb, 1944 via using drop tanks.

But we were still at a clumsy stage, the much vaunted Norden bomb-sight just wasn't up to putting bombs on a specific target.

The Army Air Corp knew it too, in fact checking crew manifests for raids in 44 -45 (B-17 and B-24) one will see that frequently instead of listing a bombardier, there is a "Nose Gunner", always a trained enlisted man in that position.

I can't believe that this wasn't discussed during his USAF flight training.

[driftdiver]

“So, Jorge is saying it was better to bomb them to death than the Nazi’s too gas them??? Huh???”

No he’s saying we should have stopped the mass slaughter of innocents in these camps. If you weren’t so wrapped up in your ‘jorge’ hatred you could see that.