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Re: Stategic Bombing
I tend to agree with jim here. In the beginning using Bomber Command was the only way that the UK could hit back and strike at Germany proper.
Some fundamental errors were made along the way, however, the Bombing offensive also forced German industry to waste fantastic resources that could have been deployed elsewhere. Thousand of AA guns that under other circumstances could have been made into tanks instead. A huge building programme of shelters. The disruption to communications centres and of course the constant worry for all where the Bomber fleets would strike next. I believe the effort was justified up until the begining of 1945.
Lets also not forget the 55.000 RAF Aircrew who died on Ops and the almost 20,000 others who died in training and accidents unrelated to actual Ops. They were the Cream of Britian and it can be argued that Bomber Command was the most technically advanced force of any nation in WW2.
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