Harris believed he could break the Germans spirit through bombing. Fore runner of shock and awe if you like.
Same was true of the A bomb. Only in the case of the A bomb it actually worked.
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go team...
From what I was taught, everything in the war hinged on americas actions
now this isn't necessairly true but heres what the average 10th grader is taught in HS in my area of america.
The reason the japanese attacked us was because we imposed an oil embargo against them AND because we were the only thing in the pacific that could have stopped them from setting up a grand empire. So they tried to hit the pacific fleet to turn us into a toothless tiger. They miscalculated and missed the carriers AND underestamated the industrial capacity of the united states. With Europe we weren't taught much... just a good guys kicked the bad guys in the behind with D-Day.
Really the european war was more like the last few lines of Saga Begins
"in the end some russians died, some ships blew up and some allies fried, alot of folks were chokin' the 3rd reich was broken"
Dresden I don't know much more about than the fact that they napalmed it to hell and that the writer of Slaugherhouse Five kept harping on it...
sigh... why we learn oh so much more about the depression and WWI than WW2 I don't know.