The RAIL LINES going to the Camps that carried all the Jews to be slaughtered in the camps.....the trains carried the Jews to the camps...if the RAILS had been bombed not so many would have been able to be transported so easily.
If you read the article, the author argued that bombing rail lines is essentially pointless. They can be repaired overnight.
Which proved to be, in fact, the case everytime we undertook bombing raids on rail beds and railroad yards. Unless a critical structure -- such as a major bridge or tunnel -- was available to target, attacks on rail targets were essentially fruitless.
Thus, any attack on the rail lines leading to the camps would've effected only a momentary pause -- at the price of a 2-to-5% attrition rate among the bomber crews.
Ann, are you aware of how difficult it was for WWII era planes to hit narrow targets like a rail? Are you aware that they had to make low, daring runs at targets like those? Are you away of how many constant, daily passes the WWII Army Air Corp would have to have made for bombing to be effective? Are you aware that the Germans could replace railroad tracks as fast as we bombed them? Are aware that our air forces at the time were strained, and could not even give sufficient help to our ground forces in combat? Are you aware that some, or perhaps many, of our planes would have been shot down in such non-strategic runs, which would have led to a prolongation of the war, and many more American, Allied and Jewish deaths?
Bush should have known better than to make such a statement, since his father was a WWII Army Air Corp pilot who got shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft guns when flying low in a combat mission. My guess is that when GWH heard of his son's reckless statement he probably shook his head in disbelief.