I Must Not Burn: The Bombing of Dresden 1945
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Trial Under Fire, We Did It
The majority of those 552 bombers did drop their payloads of high explosives and incendiaries into the inferno consuming dresden. They were some of the few people alive who ever witness anything like it. Jesella rikelt remembered watching an incendiary dropping near her and her family. It was filled with jellied petroleum, and when it burst, it drenched her grandmother in the flammable liquid. Within mille seconds, one of the flying sparks ignited the old woman's clothes. Azella watched her grandmother consumed in flames faster than her brain could even register what happened. The second wave of bombs brought fresh horror to an already nightmarish environment.
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