The British (Harris was there as officer and was very fond of idea, go figure) used to bomb Iraq arab rebels into submission with gas and air attacks on civillians in the 1920s. Firebombing civillians is clear connected to Bomber Command/Arthur Harris more than to anybody else. I doubt anybody else can be named who would make this a policy (meaning: not tactic used in some cases, often as retribution to other action). USAAF policy in Far east comes close only imho.
Still peddling lies, Tante Ju? The RAF never used gas to attack anyone, since the stocks remained in the U.K. Have you ever tried firebombing in the desert, by the way? There's not a lot to burn out there, and if a tribesman takes a potshot, at you, with a rifle, he ceases to be a civilian. More Russian "truths," perhaps?
Check the 1940 photos, and you'll find London ablaze, thanks to German incendiaries. At the start of the war, the RAF was banned from dropping bombs on Germany, because it was seen as private property, so please let's have none of this nonsense that the RAF started it, and the poor misunderstood Germans were only retaliating.
My heart sank, today, when I saw, yet again, in a debate on bombers v nightfighters, Dresden being dragged out, as though it was some defining moment; the German generals might have known, by 13-2-45, that the war was as good as over, but, having been on the receiving end of the Bulge and Bodenplatte, the Allies never knew any such thing. As always, hindsight is 20:20.
It's funny, in a way, how few people know what really led the way, for the Allies, in the night skies, and the secret was so well kept that the Germans (and even the pilots) never found out. Infra-red was put to use, as an air-to-air recognition tool, and, for more than 30 years, no-one ever knew.
Edgar