From: Jeff Shultz 

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:09:51 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
 wrote:

>
>"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
>news:0g971v88mstd6otk17lq1vsbh55ice1a6l{at}4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:16:57 -0000, "Paul Ranson"

>> wrote:
>>
>> >http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114coventry.htm
>> >
>> >I assume that every (night) fighter in the RAF would always have been
>> >available, and that radar and detection of the German navigation beams
>would
>> >have provided knowledge of the target  in sufficient time.
Especially for
>> >somewhere as inland as Coventry.
>> >
>> >Paul
>>
>> Interesting. However, my original point, which nobody did get, is that
>> we weren't the only ones destroying civilian population centers.
>>
>
>Oh true. In many ways (though it ain't certain) the Germans kicked off the
>whole devastate the city from the air ethos with Warsaw & Antwerp
& London.
>Arguably their first attempts/practices at this were in Spain during the
>Civil war.
>
>Certainly Goebels saying Germany was now in a "Total War"
kinda sealed the
>fate of the German cities.
>
>Adam
>
Japan, Rape of Nanking (even if the average Japanese won't admit it happened).

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