Avro Lancaster Bombing Raid On German City

Actually I'm not angry at those pilots but I feel offended if somebody sees anything glorious in this. I'd rather admire those who won the U-boat war or defeated Rommel in North Africa, etc. I'd cherish the memory of Lord Mountbatten who was viciously and cowardly murdered by IRA.

I am mad at Germans who bombed places like Canterbury and Norwich and York, and, in Russia, used the 1000-year-old churches of Nowgorod as targets. I am also mad at Britons who used the old defenceless Hildesheim (with no military significance) for training their aircrew two months before the end of the war destroying the centre and the 1200-year-old churches. In Würzburg (without military significance) more ancient manuscripts were destroyed than once in Alexandria when its library burned.

The War Cabinet, having a goal of killing a million civilians (there are documents about this decision) and consciously violating the spirit of the Hague Convention. Another thing which is noteworthy, is that instead of targeting industry, dockyards, military barracks and railway hubs, cultural landmarks like old towns, cathedrals, monasteries etc. were targated because they burned so nicely. Obviously this vandalism did not have any military significance.

I respect you that you served your country, Mr. Reg Verrin, and that is what means most to any veteran. You were loyal to your superiors like any soldier at war. But there will always be people who will feel outraged about what the bomber command did. If you dropped gasoline jelly and "candle sticks" on civilians, that, even though performed out of loyalty, will provoke similar feelings as the nuclear bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Be these feelings irrelevant or not, they will emerge.

I respect veterans like you, Reg Verrin, like I respected my father who defended my own country, which was a democracy. We had two wars against the Soviet and one war against the Nazi Germany. Yet, one should not show in Youtube these shocking pictures of burning cities. They are disgusting and will inevitably provoke protests. It is enough to remeber the victims of the war with respect. I hate Neo Nazis who disrespect the victims of the war with their perverse political agendas.

Those women, children and old people didn't ask the total war, the Nazi government did. That doesn't give any excuse of torching civilians in a scientifically studied and tested manner, even how furniture, blankets and cradles would burn, and how phosfor would burn human flesh up to bone. It is disturbing how anybody can see anything valiant in this. It is not question about Germans, but civilians and the civilized values Britain was supposed to present.

I think that one who fancies the sound of these merlin engines, should also remember that Lancs lacked the belly turret and was an easy target for German night fighters and that RAF had not developed escort fighters to protect them. Despite the cowardly bombing of sleeping women, children and old people (ordinary people, not party members since the Nazis were safe in their luxury bunkers), 55000 young men were sacrificed by the Empire, arrogantly, because Lancs were, after all, too primitive.

You need to live in the real world. Bomber command was a hammer, designed to flatten and destroy.. That's what war is. Look at germanys attempt to kill with V1 and V2 rockets, meant to kill and spread fear and terror.. Lancasters were the same tool. You heard the drone of 4 Merlins and you hoped it was a Spitfire attack on your local airfield. At night, you knew it was a bomber attack. Harris knew the value of terrorism. Area bombing killed civillians and they worked in factories.. Pro Quis.

Well then ok! If lone sees something heroic in those Lancasters, then one should feel similar admiration and awe towards V1 and V2 rockets! Bombing civilians and culture was rather a huge mistake. It still questions your reputation outside. And it didn't serve your victory either. The bomber war involved conscious and constant testing of mass destrustion on civilians, just like the Nazis did in Guernica, but in a much larger scale. Only the USAF did something useful by bombing oil deposits,

Not spitfire attacks but rather mosquito attacks. These damn fast aircraft (with the payload as large as one-fourth of that of Lancaster!!!) destroyed a Gestapo headquarter in Copenhagen. The British were thus capable of performing precision raids too. Saying that Harris "understood the value of terrorism", you justify thus the V1 and V2 raids, as well as bombing historical cities of cultural heritage like Canterbury, York and Bath. Btw. I'm not German. By the way, I'm not German.