PB wrote:
Derek Copeland wrote:
Well this occured before I was born. But:

1) The Germans bombed our cities first - London, Coventry,
Birmingham, Southampton, Portsmouth, Liverpool, etc,
etc.
But never carpet bombed your cities.

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Is that why Dresden was flattened just few month before the end of the
war? Not really, please check your history, inflicting maximum damage
to the cities was an expressly stated policy of the Bomber Command.

As far as I know it was payback for Coventry, which was sacrificed,
undefended by fighter command, to protect the secret possession of the
Enigma Machine by the Brits via the Poles. Churchill knew the raid on
Coventry was coming, but only via the code-breaking and no secondary
intelligence. One of the harder calls in the war and an appeasement to
some.

Frank Whiteley