Good one I was thinking of European theater Tokyo is far better example..... Dresden was the indiscriminate bombing more so the historical architecture destruction i like old buildings.
It was night bombing. There was no such thing as "discriminate" night bombing. Only daylight raids with the Norden bombsight came (not very) close, and the night fire-bombing strategy mostly never came together. Except at Hamburg and Dresden. It is a sad fact of war that military targets are always legitimate. The defending party has a positive obligation to keep his military activity separated from the public. (I can't remember if it is the Hague Convention or the Geneva Convention.) Ever wondered why our ICBM bases are strewn all over the wide open western states where nobody lives?
But the nerves on both sides had gotten too raw. The Germans started the Blitz against England, and tit leads to tat. They later attempted to pursue it further with the V-1 and V-2 weapons. There's a good book on the subject that unwraps the nature of the military targets in Dresden.
Good one I was thinking of European theater Tokyo is far better example..... Dresden was the indiscriminate bombing more so the historical architecture destruction i like old buildings.
It was night bombing. There was no such thing as "discriminate" night bombing. Only daylight raids with the Norden bombsight came (not very) close, and the night fire-bombing strategy mostly never came together. Except at Hamburg and Dresden. It is a sad fact of war that military targets are always legitimate. The defending party has a positive obligation to keep his military activity separated from the public. (I can't remember if it is the Hague Convention or the Geneva Convention.) Ever wondered why our ICBM bases are strewn all over the wide open western states where nobody lives?
But the nerves on both sides had gotten too raw. The Germans started the Blitz against England, and tit leads to tat. They later attempted to pursue it further with the V-1 and V-2 weapons. There's a good book on the subject that unwraps the nature of the military targets in Dresden.