WW2 bombing

In Britain
too both the Blitz and Robot attacks did damage but the people in
those targeted cities continued on, constantly sifting through the
rubble and rebuilding/repairing what they could.

There is a difference between the delivery of an average of 5,000
tons per day of bombs, which is what the allied air forces were
doing in September 1944, to the total of 10,492 V1s and 1,403
V2s launched against all of England for the war, basically the
effort represented 2 days of allied bombing. About 71% of the
V1s and 79% of the V2s made it to England or "off-shore", of
the 7,488 V1s observed by the defences 3,957 were shot down,
leaving 3,531, of which 2,419 exploded in the London Civil Defence
Area. So all up the V weapons did less than a day's allied bombing
in September 1944 over the period 12 June 1944 to 29 March 1945.
See The Defence of the United Kingdom by Basil Collier.


Their is also a big difference between bombs dropped one at a time and a
mass of them coming down at once. In the latter case civil defence
workers get overwhelmed, fireman have too many fires to put out, the
public are not running up and putting out the fires before they get too
big etc.