[Sergio Luis dos Santos]

A image and a testemony comes to my mind now.

The image are scenes from gun cameras of american planes straffing civilians when attacking Japan. Those images are seen on several documentarys, some in color.

The testemony comes from a Brazilian pilot that fought in Italy. In a DVD released in Brasil he talks abour a little red car he attacked in a road. He says he flew around the car several times and then fired at till it blew ( Can´t imagine the impact of 8 gun´s at one in a little car... ). In the documentary he says to be regretful in attacking the car.

A former Blohm und Voss worker, sorry don´t remember the name now ( he wrote a book released by Monogram Publications years ago) also mentions the straffing of civilians in Germany by american planes.

So, in the heat of the battle, decisions must be taken in a very short time and sometimes we can´t blame the pilots or other soldiers for wrong decisions. It´s always easy to comment those facts years after... My thinking do not applies for deliberate attacks but talking about war is always very confliting. You can´t fire your guns on civilians but can drop tons of bombs on them...