Mr. Gustin shows his anti-American bias:

My point is that when it came to strategic targets in Germany
itself, the actual practice amounted to, as you say, "leaving
damn little standing". Which simply does not involve much
accuracy, except being able to hit a city-sized target.

The Americans always eschewed that approach. They always sought accuracy, and
for the day, and under the conditions, they often obtained outstanding accurary
and results.

.....

Precision bombing may have been the officially stated goal; but
the effect on the ground was usually indistinguishable from
area bombing.


That's just false.

The Germans began redeploying their day fighters back to Germany at a time when
the USAAF was sending only a few dozen -uescorted- bombers at a time and only
striking in clear weather.

I just don't see how you can discount this. The Germans began deployment of
their day fighters from about May, 1943. That was directly because of the
effect of --daylight precison bombing--.

The USAAF flew its first radar assisted mission in November, 1943.

A very large percentage of bombs were dropped in the campaign by radar and
other non-visual means, but when the weather was clear the USAAF had the
equipment and techniques to achieve very high accuracy for the day.

The Germans are -clear- that this hurt them very badly. They are also very
clear that the USAAF hurt them worse than the RAF did, despite the fact that
the front line strength power curve of the RAF was about two years ahead of the
Americans.

See this link for an example of USAAF accuracy:

http//members.aol.com/walterm140/strike1.jpg

Walt