Having lost family members in the service of Bomber Command, I am loathe to criticise those brave airman. However it wasn't until the Mustangs ranged freely over the Reich, that the Germans knew the game was up. If Harris had been removed from his Command towards the end of the war, I doubt that Area policy would have changed that much. Britain was committed to Area bombing. However,Speer was the first to recognise the importance of Area bombing as a Second Front, taking millions of men and guns which would have otherwise been used on the Eastern Front. As an old Colonial member of the armed forces once told me: 'When the fighting is over, your country doesn't want to know you'.