Death From on High

Death From on High

Charles Lutton - Institute for Historical Review

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v01/v01p247_Lutton.html

One of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War was the bombing offensive against Germany. British, and to a lesser extent American, air commanders believed that Germany could be defeated by bombing alone. Max Hastings, a distinguished British war correspondent, has written a masterful history of the British Bomber Command ... Bomber Command launched a massive series of assaults against the Ruhr, Hamburg, and Berlin during 1943 and early 1944. Thousands of acres were burned and hundreds of thousands of Germans were killed. The RAF lost over 4,100 bombers. Yet German arms production increased ... An Associated Press dispatch reported that the "Allied air chiefs" had begun "deliberate terror bombing of German population centers ..."