Jane DoH:
The RAF had other problems however in that their bombsights weren't as good as ours and even if they had a fighter-escort they couldn't have put the bombs as effectively on target. Eventually, they would develop SABS, which was similar to our Norden bombsight, but by this point there was no desire to bomb accurately and maximizing civilian deaths was the primary objective.
My turn to hand my homework in it seems. I think that the best I can do here is to quote a veteran, Danny42C:-
There were tales of a bomb in a pickle barrel from 30,000 ft (with the new US Norden bombsight). Some folk believed in fairies too.
USAAF bombing was more accurate than BC's it is true. Our average error was 5 miles, theirs 2.5 miles. Both had aiming points, or targets if you will, and neither was told to simply bomb anywhere within a city. The difference wasn't the bomb sight, the difference was day versus night. I understand that the bulk of USAAF bombs were released by "Toggleteers" who had no bombsight but released on cue from the lead bomber that did, with inevitable "creep back".
All that aside, I take it that you consider the USAAF as guilty of the war crimes that you accuse BC of, or do you perhaps not?
MAD kept the peace in my book, for I am content with defining it simply as the absence of war!