RAF Bomber crews remembered. Better late than never.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

Yes Bongo, it was, as you put it "deliberate murder", as far as the term "murder" is applyable in a war situation.

The bombing campaign was deliberatly aimed at killing civilians. Not as "collateral", but as a specific target all in itself.

Do you know the concept of a Firestorm?

Yes I know what a 'firestorm' is, even that has not been written out of history, but back to my question unless you are evading it deliberately?

do you say bomber command was created 'solely' for killing civillians?

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Yes I know what a 'firestorm' is, even that has not been written out of history, but back to my question unless you are evading it deliberately?

do you say bomber command was created 'solely' for killing civillians?

Nitpicking and distraction, Bongo.
That was it's main emphasies. While in other branches the killing of civilians was indeed mostly collateral, sometimes delibaretly, no other "regular" military branch of any nation was so preoccupied with killing civilians as it's main operational goal over such a long period of time. At least none that I know of.

Now you can point out to the various NAZI organisations, but as I said before, be careful with what kind of organisations you want the comparison.

Btw, it is interesting what even the Daily Mail has to write about that topic:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...-led-them.html

[bongodriver]

Nitpicking and distraction, Bongo.

Not really, it's a reasonable question I asked, why else would you make a point like that?

So....do you say bomber command was formed solely for killing civillians? simple yes or no.

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Not really, it's a reasonable question I asked, why else would you make a point like that?

So....do you say bomber command was formed solely for killing civillians?

Nitpicking and distraction, Bongo.
That was it's main emphasies. While in other branches the killing of civilians was indeed mostly collateral, sometimes delibaretly, no other "regular" military branch of any nation was so preoccupied with killing civilians as it's main operational goal over such a long period of time. At least none that I know of.

We can do that all day long.