bnt:
I quite enjoyed that
Well I didn't I'm afraid. The rot started well before the Tirpitz bit, comparing the bombing of Hamburg with the Nazi Extermination Camps was where I first detected the imprimatur of the Beeb PC police creeping in. This was followed by the airy notion of a simple switch from night bombing of German cities to daylight precision bombing, mainly in France of course, of pre D-Day targets. The inference is of course that such precision bombing could have been carried out throughout. The difference is that air superiority over France in 1944 made daylight raids viable. Unescorted daylight raids over Germany were not. That the Beeb peddles the same old anti BC propaganda is par for the course. That the modern RAF does not feel compelled to denounce it is very sad. The only people to unreservedly defend the Bomber Offensive were the veterans themselves. That is not a comment on them. It is a comment on us, who are lucky that 55573 of them did what they did before dying in the doing of it.