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Originally Posted by Crni vuk
Churches, well some of them are made almost like a bunker ! If you think about how thick those walls are. Particularly old churches. I mean see how many times they would be almost untouched while the rest of the city got bombed to hell. I doubt they would survive a direct hit but many other buildings colapsed while the church was still alive. And I guess its cause a lot of churches have been built to last centuries if not more. They are very well constructed. Not something you can tell from all buildings.
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Most of the time Allied pilots were told to avoid contacts with churches and civilian areas as much as possible. Of course there couldn't be any guarantee as the bombs weren't guided after all.
Axis pilots might have followed a whole different set of rules.
11-15-2010, 02:34 PM
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