WalterM140 wrote in message ...
The Battle of Berlin was indeed a defeat, that was not the
entirety of the air war over Germany however and its provably
untrue to claim that ai operations over Germany were suspended.

Harris said he could knock Germany out of the war by attacking Berlin. And
yet he stopped attacking Berlin. Why?

I think the opening line makes that clear, the Battle of Berlin was
a defeat. I think the way Walter ducks the rest of the paragraph
makes it clear he is not interested in history.

If you say that Harris qualified his statement by suggesting that the
Americans must help, then he was just butchering his own men because he knew
that help wasn't coming.. Right?

Walter likes to run this line, Harris wrote a letter to his superiors
indicating the Battle of Berlin would go better if the USAAF could
help, Walter like to turn this into Harris killing his men.

If you say that Harris thought that Bomber Command could do the job alone, well
then he was wrong.

And until it was tried no one knew it was wrong. Just like all the other
tactics tried.

You don't become a great captain by being wrong.

So there are no great captains then, given all commanders are
wrong at times.

Harris was not a great captain. The evidence shows that he was incompetent, if
not criminally incompetent.

Walter starts from his preferred conclusion and works backward,
fitting the preferred evidence in with the deletion of inconvenient
facts.


Geoffrey Sinclair
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