Greatest Strategic Air Missions

"WalterM140" wrote in message
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Hiroshima. Nothing ever even came close in effect importance or end
result.
End of story.


Gee, Art.

That just whacked a huge number of civilians.

Most of them Japanese Catholics who while loyal Japanese were often
conscientious objectors.

I am told by some Malaysian friends of Eurasian extraction that the
Nunneries, Catholic schools etc were treated with deference by the Japanese
because they had enough soldiers in their own forces concerned about this.



Wouldn't a strategic air mission have to be something like the Dam Busters
or
something?


Ploesti? Don't know if it worked but Germany's synthetic fuel industry was
only ever capable of meeting 30% of requirements. It seems that Germany's
heavy bomber program was scrapped in part due to this even after the He 177
had become reliable and it made the Whermacht more vulnerable to the
eventualy attacks on the syn fuel plants themselves.

Both the Germans and Japanese were looking for a way of surrendering
conditionaly (ie not an armistice but a surrender with occupying forces).

Because the allies wouldn't except anything but unconditional surrender the
war had to drag on and many more people on both sides had to die.

Harry Morgentau (US secreatary of state) had particularly horrendous plans
in stall for Germany that involved starving to death about 15 million of the
population that would have made the Ukranian genocides 4.5 million pall in
comparison. It was an inkling of these plans, the knowledge of the carve
up of Germany and also the fact that the Germans wanted to surrender to the
US/UK rather than the Russians (whose atrocities involved tearing women
apart by the legs in Kongisberg using trucks) as well as Hitlers no
surrender mentality that extended the war.





Or wrecking that canal (I forget the name) with Tall Boys?

Seriously, something that caused a strategic effect for economical return,
like
the Oil Campaign of 1944/45.

Walt