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All in all, the raids almost killed 600 000 persons and injuried 800 000 among the civilian german during the war. Thousand aged cities are fully destroyed. The bomber command leader, Arthur Harris, said: "We always have worked with the idea that bombing anything in Germany was better than not bombing". The carpet bombing technique comes from this time.http://mccomber.blogspot.fr/2007/07/le-mauvais-sicle-chapitre-10-sir.html said:En tout, on estime que les raids aériens alliés ont causé 600 000 morts et 800 000 blessés parmi les populations civiles Allemandes au cours de la guerre. Des villes millénaires sont rasées. Le chef du Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, a dit de l'époque : « Nous avons toujours travaillé à partir du principe que bombarder n'importe quoi en Allemagne était mieux que de ne rien bombarder du tout. » La technique du tapissage de bombes (Carpet Bombing) vient de cette époque.
According to the general instruction R8, the Americans, during 1944 spring, calculated that the carpet bombing which was necessary in France to prepare the D-Day would kill 160 000 civilian!http://la-loupe.over-blog.net/article-bataille-du-ciel-clostermann-l-as-des-as-64490248.html said:Dans leur directive R8, les Américains, au printemps 1944, estimaient que le « carpet bombing » qu'il fallait étendre sur la France pour préparer le Débarquement aboutirait à la mort de 160 000 civils !
As a Brit to a Frenchman I suggest you visit Caen and Aulnoye, as I have, also Hamburg Dresden and Berlin. Also read about bombing of London, Hamburg, Tokyo. In historical terms also read about sacking of cities, Jericho was a Biblical city with a wall around it for a reason. I worked for a while in Semur en Auxois a city walled for its defence against sacking (burning and looting) Maybe do some research into Napoleons conduct before and after his capture of Moscow. Destroying towns and cities by fire is an age old tactic, technology allowed it to be done from the air in WW2.Hello there!
I have read from Clostermann's book about the carpet bombing, which consisted in a drop of a large amount of bombs on the target. According to Clostermann, it killed a lot of civilian people, during the war, especially in Dresde and in Normandy. Is it a true strategic operation or is it a myth?
Is there nayone else who have heard about this?
Ok, is it related to what have called the blitzkrieg?
I've been in Normandy, and I've already seen the huge holes made by the bombs. Do not worry, I've seen it!
Hello there!
I have read from Clostermann's book about the carpet bombing, which consisted in a drop of a large amount of bombs on the target. According to Clostermann, it killed a lot of civilian people, during the war, especially in Dresde and in Normandy. Is it a true strategic operation or is it a myth?
Is there nayone else who have heard about this?
some insights into allied bombing on this site....
THE REICH'S EX-LEADERS EXPLAIN WHY THEY WERE BEATEN
Nazis Explain Defeat
Some interesting stuff there, was it another Reich that was at war with Russia? Even in defeat they seem incapable of recognising the USSRs contribution.
The interrogated tend to tell their interrogators what they think they want to hear! I haven't read them all but I bet none were being asked the questions by Soviet interrogators.
Cheers
Steve
those are merely blurbs from lengthy interrogations. like anything else you would have to read the entire transcript to see the quotes in context and see what was the question they were answering. i thought they were interesting nonetheless...
Credit where credit is due.Carpet bombing, more correctly area bombing, was the system devised by RAF Bomber Command to enable it to operate by night and to compensate for the technological limitations of 1940s bombing accuracy, whilst still inflicting damage on Germany's capacity to wage war.