Zuckermann, who formulated Operation Strangle to break the stalemate in Italy, again proposed targeting specific, high-value railway centers and heavy repair facilities.
But this action ran into immediate opposition from Lt. Gen. Spaatz, commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, who wants to deal with the Luftwaffe first. More importantly, Winston Churchill who fears considerable French civilian casualties will push France towards the Soviet Union. They budged after Eisenhower threatened to resign unless an agreement was reached before a 25 March meeting.
On 17 April, Eisenhower's directive specified rail centers as the No. 2 priority in the overall Allied bombing campaign. Two days later, Ninth Air Force, Twelfth Air Force, and RAF Bomber Command were joined in railroad bombing by the Eight and Fifteenth Air Force.
America even practiced the wholesale of slaughtering civilians beforehand:
"For the sake of improving USAAF firebombing capabilities, a mock-up German Village was built up and repeatedly burned down. It contained full-scale replicas of German residential homes. Firebombing attacks proved quite successful, in a series of attacks launched by the RAF and US forces in July 1943 on Hamburg, roughly 50,000 civilians were killed and large areas of the city destroyed."
ModernGuilt 1 points 2 years ago
American foreign policy was already ran by literal communist jews at that point like harry white and Morgenthau