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RE: Countermeasures
Posted by: gavin ()
Date: July 04, 2001 08:31AM

<HTML>Hi Super K. (a breakfast cereal in this country!!)

I\'m not really sure satements such as \'effective BC night bombing campaign, really cut much ice vis a vis the strategic bombing survey conducted at the end of the war\' My trade off would have been many many many allied merchant ships saved versus (I\'ll give you this one) many many many geman houses and people and a small number of factories and trains etc destroyed. By my reading of the british bomber offensive for much of the war to do nothing would have been a victory. Exceptions exist of course like Peenumunde etc (sic?) but by the by I think the widesread consensus in the original west if not in Germany today is that it was a failure. I note German industrial production spiralled during the course of the campaign and casualties on the allied side sky rocketed. For example I think casualties to Australia fighting the Bomber offensive for almost no gain exceeded infantry casualties fighting the Japanese!! (and we wont discuss how bitter that was!) All in all it shows a classic traditional dogma orientated incompetent air force attitutude to battle in the maritime sphere vis a vis a more wise headed approach.

AND I\'M NOT EVEN TOUCHING ON THE MORAL SIDE OF BOMBING CITIES</HTML>

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