Geriaviator,
....I remember some TV poser, hands waving furiously, spouting from a Hamburg street and telling us that the workers' houses had been devastated and thousands had been killed.
Spot on ! As an old uncle of mine (trenches WWI) used to say:
"when the scrap-iron starts flying about, everybody's likely to get hurt".
In a quiet little church in Falaise, N. France, (2008 pop; 8300), is a wall tablet commemorating the death of 300 civilians in the 1944 battles.
As I recall, thousands were killed in the London 'Blitz' in 1941. In 1942, "
They have sown the wind", declared Harris, "
they will reap the whirlwind"....And they
did !
War is War, it is not nice, the innocent suffer with the guilty. It was ever so, and ever will be.
Danny.