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Brent - according to a Swiss historian, a minumum of 2 1/2 million senior folks, women and children were killed in Germany by the Allied bombing, among them quite a few from my family, so that´s a topic which does not go well with me. According to the same source, over 300,000 were killed on February 13th/14th, 1945 in the bombing of Dresden, a city with no military relevance other than the fact it was packed with refugees from Breslau, Liegnitz and other places in the province of Silesia.That day, my great aunt and her entire family of husband, 4 kids and 2 grandparents ceased to exist. The amount of people burned to death is double the figure of Hiroshima and Nagasaki together! I don´t feel any anger for those British and American bomber crews who were told they´d hit military installations while the actual target was civilian folks, although the type of load should have given them a clue as to the nature of their mission. You don´t need incendiary bombs to destroy military targets!   I don´t think it is a topic for cheap Hollywood entertainment, nor an issue for anyone directly or indirectly involved to be proud of. Do a Google picture search "Dresden 1945" and you will understand my point of view.
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