Just to add a slightly lighter touch to this thread, including our friends from the DDR I would like to jump forward to 1958 and a bit beyond. I believe in the middle of the cold war quite a lot of blokes who are still on here served in RAFG on one of the two Canberra B(I)8 Squadrons. Then the bombing technique was LABS with a bucket of sunshine of about 20k tons of TNT equivalent. I am also fairly certain that one of the targets allocated by NATO HQ was again Dresden. The reason was quite simple Dresden was was/is a potential pinch point for the troops and weapons of the USSR and designed to stop reinforcement from the East. It was Harris that was largely blamed for the 1945 raid after the war, when it was clearly a joint decision. Incidentally I hope we are safe now from the ramifications of the OSA.
Funny how history has a nasty habit of repeating itself but in this instance thank God, a repetition was not needed.
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