labrador pup,
You are so wrong in your assertion. Do the most basic research into Bomber Command operations, particularly the latter half of the war, and you will see that you in fact have no grounds whatsoever for being so 'heartily fed up.'
Each crew did not have a specific military or industrial target. The crews in fact had very little involvement in what they were actually bombing, that came from the Air Ministry and Bomber Command headquarters and was based on target reconnaissance coverage of previously bombed targets. They were targeted at unburnt and unbombed areas of the cities, individual facilities did not come into it.
In point of fact they were most usually aiming for specific target markers dropped by the target marking force and guided onto the relevant colours by the Master Bomber. He would move the aim point from, say, red to green target markers, or "bomb south of the green" or bomb to the east of the red" according to the areas of the city not on fire.
On the Dresden raid industrial and military areas were not even marked on the crews maps, they were merely aimed at zones of the city. The point at which the marker flares were aimed was a wooden sports stadium in the middle of the city. The railway marshalling yards, perhaps THE most militarily and industrially important target in the whole of Dresden, were not even in the target area.
The target was the city and the population of Dresden.
Harris was no war criminal, he was merely wrong. He was convinced, and made the statement many times, that strategic bombing of cities would win the war, it didn't. It certainly contributed massively to it, but that wasn't the claim made by Harris, he claimed that there was NO NEED for the D-Day landings or the Battle of the Atlantic, that strategic bombing alone would win the day. It didn't.
Prior to the Battle of Berlin he made the claim. "I will wreck Berlin from end to end. It will cost me 500 bombers, it will cost Germany the war."
He was wrong on both counts. It cost him 1500 bombers, Berlin was never wrecked from end to end, and it never cost Germany the war. The Battle of Berlin was lost by Bomber Command and it didn't cost the Germans the war.
He was also opposed to panacea targets, and in this he consistently argued and fought with CAS and Director of Bomber Operations at the Air Ministry. He didn't want to concentrate on oil or ball bearing targets, as proposed by the Americans, he even opposed the Dams raid. He was totally focused on a campaign of dehousing and destruction of CITIES.
At the end of the war German industrial output was still rising and there was no shortage of material or equipment. What there WAS was a massive shortage of oil and ball bearings. The Americans were right, Harris was wrong.