They lied about the effectiveness of German
bombing at the start of WW2, to justify a counter offensive.

Wrong. The USAAF part of the CBO was born out of AWPD-1, first drafted in
1938. The only thing the USAAF can be accused of was too easily dismissing the
German failure in the Battle of Britain when they revised AWPD-1 in late 1940.
According to most air power experts of that time period, Germany failed because
their bombers were ill equipped to the task. They were correct in that regard,
but they let that explain away everything and literally learned no lessons from
the Battle of Britain.

Throughout WW2
they lied about the effectiveness of their bombing to justify throwing good
resources after bad.

Wrong again. They had a real time intelligence problem with attempting to
analyze exactly the results of their bombing. They had excellent photo recon
and excellent SIGINT due to Ultra, but a hard time correlating the 2. 60 years
later, we are still struggling with this, albeit not nearly as bad.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"