[rmvh]

Sir Arthur (Bomber) Harris, legendary head of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command in the Second World War, boasted his squadrons of aircraft had killed 600,000 people -- mainly civilians and children -- in their non-stop flights over Germany.

I flew with the eighth AF and can tell you that there was nothing noble or commendable about Mr. Harris's destruction of Dresden and massacre of it's inhabitants. It was simply a crime and has been whitewashed by the British press since the mid forties.

The city of Dresden had not a fragment of use to the German military and was the repository of irreplacable art of immense value to the world. What this maniac accomplished was no different than the Taliban's recent and equally insane destruction of the desert statues after ignoring the pleas of the civilized world to spare them.

This act by the Royal Air Force stands as a crime against humanity and was inexcusable then...and now.

[Arthur McGowan]

I've hit the ABUSE button on bulldog905 for advocating the murder of civilians.

[Kermit]

Bombing by air is notorious for NOT hurting the morale of the people. Bombing did not affect Germany that much, war production peaked in late 1944, just months before victory. If the nuclear bombs are used, it lowers the threshold for their use. Both Pakistan and Indian are now members of the club and are bitter enemies.

[JCG]

The city of Dresden had not a fragment of use to the German military and was the repository of irreplacable art of immense value to the world. What this maniac accomplished was no different than the Taliban's recent and equally insane destruction of the desert statues after ignoring the pleas of the civilized world to spare them.

Mecca and Medina await.

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[Dacus943]

"I flew with the eighth AF and can tell you that there was nothing noble or commendable about Mr. Harris's destruction of Dresden and massacre of it's inhabitants. It was simply a crime and has been whitewashed by the British press since the mid forties."

While I respect service to the efforts of WWII, I disagree with your above statement! Hilter WAS PURE EVIL RUN AMOK! His actions, and those of his followers laid the ground work for this horrible Military Action against (a German City) Dresden.

[Vigilantcitizen]

I suppose the nightly bombings of London we're not targeting civilians??

[Grut]

What this maniac [Harris] accomplished ...

He was a maniac, too, or at least seriously disturbed. By the end of the war he was having his dead aircrews in for tea and explaining to them that he had not wasted their lives....

[southland]

You must not have been in London during Germany's effort to destroy it.

[Republic of Texas]

We were at war, and those German people were contributing to the German war effort. Your ignorance of WWII is appalling.