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Thread #120320   Message #2622604
Posted By: Teribus
01-May-09 - 10:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obama and torture
Subject: RE: BS: Obama and torture
Most certainly Art, I am more than happy to stick to recorded historical facts. What those facts tell me is that where the crews of RAF Bomber Command bombed individually on markers laid by the RAF's Pathfinder Force, US Bomber crews bombed en masse by group on command of their "Master Bomber". Those recorded historical facts also state that whereas US Bomber formations were guided to their targets by a "Master Navigator" RAF Bomber crews navigated their aircraft individually to their targets.

On the 15th of February 1945 when the USAAF arrived over Dresden around midday they found the city totally obscured by cloud. Using USAAF bombing tactics six groups each occupying one square mile of airspace bombed "blind" using H2X radar.

You may wrap yourself up in sources that quote the euphemism "precision daylight bombing" and fool yourself into believing it, which you obviously do otherwise this would never have appeared:

"The Dresden firebombing was the result of a bombing raid by the Royal Air Force."

After all the Americans would never, ever do a terrible thing like that would they?? But historical fact and extremely credible historical sources show that between 13th and 15th of February 1945 the RAF visited Dresden on two occasions, exactly the same number of times that the USAAF did. Oh yet another well documented historical fact, sources in the form of official records show that the composition of bomb loads for both RAF and USAAF aircraft were identical in proportion of HE bombs to incendiaries.

What they called their method of bombing is immaterial, the effect of it was no different to what was done by RAF Bomber Command, please don't try to pretent otherwise.