There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotte… - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotte…
- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that th… - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that th…
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible fo… - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible fo…
Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial site… - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial site…
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wr… - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wr…
In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method. - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land c… - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land c…
Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers. - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed. - Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.
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