
The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War Two Was Unjustifiable
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Strategic Bombing
I don't think there was a feeling that the continued bombing of cities was in any way linked to the prevention of an atomic bomb. I didn't think of being saved in that particular way which he mentioned. And Steve, was it a decent alternative? Why wasn't it used? Well, I'm not sure that there was when one looks at what Richard was suggesting. The way that, for example, almost imitating the Luftwaffe actually does a sort of close support arm to the German army. That was Richard never much on the table,. It goes back as I think he mentioned to 1918 and sort of the RAF's desperation to be a sort of separate strategic arm.
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