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This is a link post How one of WW2 greatest pictures was taken.
Contains: Beaufighter, Ack Ack, Rockets and explosions.
(smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Mon 18 May 2015, 21:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Bloody awesome piece.
But, the more I read about unimportant engagements against German 'important' targets makes me fucking angry... So many men died during the latter stages of the war forfuck all. Harris is a prime example of ticking the boxes for his ego. I have massive respect for the flyers but diminishing respect for the commanders.
 (mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Mon 18 May 2015, 21:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes I'm not entirely sure why Harris got a statue
but then I note it has been "seen to": s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/33/35/3333572_da6c66ce.jpg
 (I helped save b3ta! thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Mon 18 May 2015, 22:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Harris's "unimportant targets" were actually the stuff hurting the Germans.
Strategic bombing, until the very end, did not slow down industrial weapon production much.
The whole fleet of Lancaster could have been replaced by Mosquito's in late 1943 dropping fewer bombs in the right place, all over the place.
Germany without a bridge, tunnel or railway junction would have been severely impaired.
When you read German accounts of US daylight bombing, you get the impression they feared the strafing P47's coming back from escorting the heavies more than the heavies themselves.
The heavies did work very well sometime, for example tactical bombing of Japanese Air-force and Navy during the island hoping campaign.
Mass bombing cities just pisses off your opponent's population.

You could argue that the drain of running the mass strategic bombing effort balanced out the damage done.
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Mon 18 May 2015, 23:08, Reply)
This is a normal post I think it is impossible to actually measure.
Yes, the main effect was to piss people off, but if you have been up for five nights running and just learned your sisters had been killed, how efficient are you as a worker the next day?
Some will be even more determined, but after 6 months it is going to get you down, surely.
I would certainly agree that the loss of aircrew didn't make up for that effect though.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 18 May 2015, 23:52, Reply)
This is a normal post in Total War, pissing off your opponents population to the point where they don't want the war to continue is an objective in itself

(Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Tue 19 May 2015, 3:31, Reply)
This is a normal post When did that last work?
And Star Wars does not count as history.
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Tue 19 May 2015, 18:42, Reply)
This is a normal post some of it was pacifying the Russians
But there is little evidence of area bombings having any effect on the the SHAEF efforts in the West from June 44 until the end of the war.
 (mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Tue 19 May 2015, 21:41, Reply)
This is a normal post arthur
Bomber harris was handley-page bomber pilot in ww1 and after the zepplin and goethe raids on england,he remarked "finishing,unfinished buisness"!
 (BRICKBAT, Tue 19 May 2015, 17:58, Reply)
This is a normal post You missed out some capitals (and some other letters), so here they are...
A, H, a, H, P, W, W, Z, e, G, & E
 (Anthony Burgess' Chocolate Orange, Tue 19 May 2015, 21:51, Reply)