
The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War Two Was Unjustifiable
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British and the RAF Started the Second World War With a Hand That Had Been Handed
Britain and the RAF started the Second World War with a hand that had been dealt in the interwar years. Its whole aerial strategy was based on having a bomber fleet that would reach out, either deter Germany from attacking or do fatal damage to Germany's war industries. In 1942, when this wasn't working, but the big bombers were coming along, they were where they were. They only really had one course of action, and that was to go and bomb Germany if we were to show defiance. If we were actually going to hurt the enemy in any meaningful way, that was really the only choice we had.
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