never hurts to get the actual information
The words on the plaque are quoted to be
“The value and morality of the strategic bomber offensive against Germany remains bitterly contested. Bomber Command’s aim was to crush civilian morale and force Germany to surrender by destroying its cities and industrial installations. Although Bomber Command and American attacks left 60,000 Germans dead and more than five million homeless, the raids resulted in only small reductions in German war production until late in the war.”
Seems like a pretty accurate statement though there is a typo on the German dead, more like 600,000. The bombing campaign was contested at the time by many, both inside and out of the military and at very high levels, for both military and moral reasons. Why pretend otherwise?
If someone goes to the musem, reads the plaque and bothers to find out a little more it has served a purpose.
Sometimes it seems it only takes a the whiff of pc to cause severe knee jerk.
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