Well said, DML. The irony of Comrade Pr00ne's disparagement of Chastise is that the main beneficiary of the operation was the Soviet Union's Red Army, as was the case with much of the RAF's Strategic Bombing Campaign. It hampered war production and denied manpower and aircraft to the Eastern Front from Barbarossa to the very end of the war. The successful attack on the Tirpitz removed a major threat to the Arctic Convoys, again to the advantage of the Soviet Union. Even Dresden, the German Hiroshima, was targeted on its behalf. Precious little thanks did Bomber Command get at the time from them or from the chattering classes, a trend which continues to the present day it seems.
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