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."
Uh.... Hate to tell you this but the RAF was blanket bombing Germany well before the US was involved in the war.
Another fun fact - the Gallipoli landings by the ANZACS in WWI were a distraction so the UK could land unopposed at Suvla Bay. It worked, while diggers were being fucked in the ass for months poms were sipping tea quietly on a beach they had already secured.
I just did and you are fucknuts. It's in your title.
Why would a dude who planned a massacre of colonial troops in one war then blanket bombing enemy civilians in a second war give a single fuck what Jews have to say, especially when both wars were in support of the very British Balfour declaration.
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Another fun fact - the Gallipoli landings by the ANZACS in WWI were a distraction so the UK could land unopposed at Suvla Bay. It worked, while diggers were being fucked in the ass for months poms were sipping tea quietly on a beach they had already secured.
Guess who planned that operation.
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Why would a dude who planned a massacre of colonial troops in one war then blanket bombing enemy civilians in a second war give a single fuck what Jews have to say, especially when both wars were in support of the very British Balfour declaration.
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