From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
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> 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

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