You have to remember that specific targeting of buildings, bridges, etc, is a relatively recent technological development and certainly not the norm in the 1940s.
In 1942 Mr Butt, a senior civil servant published a report that said 90% of bombs dropped by RAF Bomber Command on raids in Germany were being dropped in excess of 5 miles from a specific aiming point.
There were special raids such as Augsburg, Le Crusot, Dams Raid, Peenemunde that were able to pinpoint targets but these were the exception rather than the rule, for example Augsburg was in daylight and the Dams Raid in full moonlight with attendant high losses.
Many areas of industrial plant were in working class areas such as the Hamburg U-boat pens but there was part of the bombing directive issued to C in C Harris which said that the bombing offensives was also directed "At the morale of the industrial workers"
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