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Re: Dresden casualties and an Atom bomb target?
It may very well have been the culmination of a (runaway) process.
You can't expect a weapon as Bomber Command to simply stop a strategy even when such a strategy is little more than kicking a dead horse.
Dresden was a virgin target in a target poor enviorment, that alone was sufficient reason to stage a late war raid. Bomber Command leadership being dedicated to following its main strategy to the end.
A more tactical deployment would probably have saved more allied lives in the end, but that would not have found favor with the air minded strategist at all.
If anything these late war bombings were a demonstration to the own team, to guarantee a strong position in the post war armed forces. The strategic airmen were bombing the hell out of Germany in 1945 to show that their's was the war winning arm.
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Ruy Horta
12 O'Clock High!
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death;
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