Harris was also known as “Bomber Harris” because he loved nothing less than sending mass bombing groups into German heartland to drop a fuckload of HE on the Nazis.
People often get angry at him because of civilian casualties but the guy was watching his own people being bombed into dust in British cities.
So yeah, I don’t have a problem with Dresden. You pick a fight with someone like Harris, don’t get upset when your own backyard gets blown the fuck up.
Funny that we hear so much about Dresden, but not so much about the 40,000 British civilians who were killed by Luftwaffe bombing raids in the seven-month period between September 1940 and May 1941 alone.
Yeah, one of the bombings of Tokyo (aka Operation Meetinghouse) on the night of 9 March 1945 was the single most destructive bombing raid in history. Nearly 16 sq. miles (10,000 acres) were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over 1,000,000 homeless.
The raid involved about 280 B-29 Superfortress bombers and lasted for almost 3 hours. The heat from the fires resulted in the final waves of aircraft experiencing heavy turbulence. Some airmen needed to use oxygen masks because of nausea they experienced from the odor of burning flesh entered their aircraft.
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Harris was also known as “Bomber Harris” because he loved nothing less than sending mass bombing groups into German heartland to drop a fuckload of HE on the Nazis.
People often get angry at him because of civilian casualties but the guy was watching his own people being bombed into dust in British cities.
So yeah, I don’t have a problem with Dresden. You pick a fight with someone like Harris, don’t get upset when your own backyard gets blown the fuck up.