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Originally Posted by Red Devil
Now becoming a regular feature, the Allies today bombed Berlin. This time it was the RAF and they actually did some damage!
Who writes this drivel? A Mel Gibson look alike Patriotic anglophobe? 
Just to put the record straight the USAAF were hugely successful at killing thousands of rabbits, foxes, badgers, birds and thousands of acres of woodland, because that's were the vast majority of their bombs fell. Whilst the RAF bombed at night and using low flying pathfinders, they illuminated their targets as the higher flying Lancasters came in. The USAAF refused to fly at night claiming it was too dangerous and instead lost many more aircraft and crew in the daylight unnecessarily. |
You have no idea what you are talking about, and yet you do it anyway. Please show evidence (as in real information) about the US bombs mostly falling in the woods.
First, your "dangerous" statement is backward. The RAF refused to fly during the day because it was too dangerous.
http://books.google.com/books?id=jzz...page&q&f=false
Second, the RAF considered the "target" to be a whole city, so it's no wonder they claimed a high hit rate.
"The ultimate aim of an attack on a town area is to break the morale of the population which occupies it. To ensure this, we must achieve two things: first, we must make the town physically uninhabitable and, secondly, we must make the people conscious of constant personal danger. The immediate aim, is therefore, twofold, namely, to produce (i) destruction and (ii) fear of death."
- Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Despatch On War Operations, 23rd February 1942 to 8th May 1945
The USAAF, on the other hand, labelled the target as being within 1000 feet of the aim point, which easily explains why the US could only claim a 20% accuracy rate. Unless the target factory was in the woods there was no bombing of all the little furry creatures you gloat about, but this did mean a lot of collateral damage to population centers, which is bad. But the British were bombing whole cities, so there is little difference in the outcome.
http://www.umsl.edu/~umslhistory/Psi...%20Bombing.pdf
So, rather than "putting the record straight" you are doing nothing but spreading highly biased propaganda. Again, if you're going to make claims like that, please show the documentation.