"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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I am going to outline a real situaitoin that occured during WW II.
I would
like to hear opinions and solutions as to how the situation should
be handled.
I will give the real solutuion that was imposed during the war after
a week or
so when many opinions have been offered.

There was a large factory producing torpedo gyroscopes and timeing
devices
for the German submarine service. It was located in the midst of a
very
populated area where the highly skilled workers lived with their
families.
These workers were near irreplaceable. It took many years to learn
the needed
skills, and without these workers production and quality would
have been
dramatically down graded. One more point. This factory was not in
any country
with which America or England was at war. What would you have done?
Remember
these German torpedoes were slaughtering American and British
seamen and
denying food and arms to England. What would you have done?
Opinions?

Should Germany have been bombing the USA for supplying arms to the UK
prior to 1942?
Should Germany have been targeting the US destroyers secretly
escorting UK convoys for nearly 1 year prior to war?

It seems to me you bomb a neutral country if you can get away with it
and the USA could get away with it. Whereas Germany was desperatly
trying to avoid confrontation with the USA.

The rest is just a moralising fog to hide double standards.

Most of the raids on Switzerland (Nearly 100) were for the usual
reasons: the bombers got lost and bombed the wrong city in the wrong
country.

Switzerland was pretty steadfastly neutral in most cases. In this
instance of the "torpedo timers" it may have simply been a case of
surreptious deals between private companies the Swiss government was
not aware of or even warned of.







Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer