I was stationed in Heilbronn in 69/70. It was bombed several times during the war. In the City Hall building there was a model of the city in ruins, 62 percent destroyed.
It never has occured to me to question or doubt why or that it was bombed.
The city is on a major river, and presumably the target of the night raids by the Brits were military and/or industrial.
It appears the US and Britain bombed Heilbronn over the war years, night and day.
That is how wars are fought and won. Anybody unable to grasp this reality is living in a magical fantasy world.
I wish we were fighting that way in Afghanistan. Instead of bringing Americans home missing limbs or messed up from multipl deployments over a decade, we’d instead be killing civilians until the war was won.
We so thoroughly defeated Germany and Japan in less than four years, and they haven’t spawned more warriors or tried it again.
Contrast that with pinprick precision, sparing the mothers of future warriors, and what we get is permanent war with islam.
I’m a very strong supporter of killing lots of civilians in war.
I agree. Once committed, anything less than conducting and winning a total war is a fool’s errand.