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Post by chiangmai on Sept 7, 2020 6:29:24 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Sept 7, 2020 9:16:38 GMT 7
The German population paid dearly for the crimes of (their) NAZI leaders.
"In the early days of bombing our notion, like that of the Germans, was to spread an attack out over the whole night, thereby wearing down the morale of the civilian population. The result was, of course, that an efficient fire brigade could tackle a single load of incendiaries, put them out, and wait in comfort for the next to come along; they might also be able to take shelter when a few high explosives bombs were dropping. ... But it was observed that when the Germans did get an effective concentration, ... then our fire brigades had a hard time; if a rain of incendiaries is mixed with high explosives bombs there is a temptation for the fireman to keep his head down. The Germans, again and again, missed their chance, as they did during the London blitz that I watched from the roof of the Air Ministry, of setting our cities ablaze by a concentrated attack. Coventry was adequately concentrated in point of space, but all the same, there was little concentration in point of time, and nothing like the fire tornadoes of Hamburg or Dresden ever occurred in this country. But they did do us enough damage to teach us the principle of concentration, the principle of starting so many fires at the same time that no firefighting services, however efficiently and quickly they were reinforced by the fire brigades of other towns could get them under control.
— Arthur Harris, Bomber Offensive, (First edition Collins 1947), Pen & Sword military classics 2005; ISBN 1-84415-210-3. Page 83
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Post by chiangmai on Sept 7, 2020 10:57:38 GMT 7
Looking up into the sky and seeing 1,000 planes attacking London is not something I can easily imagine - even harder to imagine is the resilience of the population to be able to withstand an onslaught of that magnitude for almost an entire year. I wonder how today's avocado on toast brigade of snowflakes would fare in the face of such adversity, perhaps they'd hold a demonstration on Whitehall and topple a few monuments in protest!
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Post by rubl on Sept 7, 2020 11:02:42 GMT 7
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