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Terror Targeting Bombing to break enemy morale was part of the CBO, as stated in Casablanca's Point Blank directive: "The progressive destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial, and economic system, and the undermining of the morale of the German people to a point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened. Certainly, not all area bombing involves targeting morale under the label "terror" bombing, but for purposes of this study of the Combined Bomber Offensive, the terms are synonymous. Bombing Germany could boost the Allies' positive morale by satisfying desires for retribution, and it could cause negative morale in Germans, who might eventually revolt against their system and cause the German war machine to implode. www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/apj99/win99/ash.htm

The War Amps - Documentaries and Videos -The Valour and the Horror CONCLUSION: The directive about area bombing and killing civilians was secret in that their was no official public statement. The official policy of area bombings of German cities was not tactically sound, and the objectives of the Allies could have been achieved but precision bombing of industrial and military targets. With the failure of precision bombing, Bomber Command moved to area bombing in order to defeat German morale and bring the war to the German people. www.waramps.ca /video/valour.html

Can the Allies strategic bombing campaigns of the Second World war be judged a success or failure? The Casablanca directive of 1943 formally set out the objectives of the Allied strategic bombing campaign as “the progressive destruction of the German military, industrial, and economic system, and the undermining of the morale of the German people to a point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened”. While the area bombing attacks were the best the RAF could do in 1941 they became more wasteful as technology advanced. Strategic bombing is defined as “a strike at the enemy’s capacity and willingness to continue in the conflict”. www.historic-battles.com /Articles/can_the_allies_strategic_bombing.htm

Vieques in the News On January 31, President Clinton issued a directive on Vieques that purported to be the "final word." The directive proposes to spend $40 million in Vieques for development and begin transfer of Navy lands on the western end of the island — if the civil disobedience camps are cleared and the Navy can resume bombing. A survey taken less than a week after Clinton’s directive was issued found the vast majority of people in Vieques against resumed bombing and in support of the civil disobedience encampments there. They proposed that the referendum in Vieques be held on August 1 (the earliest possible date under President Clinton’s directive) and that it include a third option — an immediate cessation of all Navy training activities on Vieques. www.forusa.org /programs/puertorico/archives/0300_viequesnews.html

Decision at Casablanca The Combined Chiefs deliberately had crafted the Casablanca Directive to allow both the AAF and RAF sufficient flexibility to pursue their own bombing doctrines and, at the same time, set the stage for a cross-channel strike. Air Chief Marshal Arthur T. "Bomber" Harris, commander of RAF Bomber Command, concurred and said that area bombing or city-busting could wreck the German economy and war machine, making an Allied invasion unnecessary. Subsequently, in June 1943, the Combined Chiefs approved the so-called "Point-blank Directive." That directive pinpointed fighter aircraft production as a major target and designated a complex that, if badly damaged, would help make the planned Allied invasion a success. www.afa.org /magazine/Jan2003/0103casa.asp

The True History of World War 2 Pointblack directive was to be a joint air raid strategy in which British Air Force would area bomb a city by night and American bombers would area bomb during the daytime, thus creating round the clock bombing of German cities. Britain employed the first firestorm bombing raid on the city of Lübeck with the use of 234 bombers, dropping first high explosives then followed up with incendiaries This air raid results in such a devastating toll on the civilian populace that Hitler orders reprisal raids. The result of this firestorm bombing raid claimed the lives of over 50,000 Civilians. www.truehistory.us /page3.html   (1312 words)

The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Bombing of Dresden (Feb.13-15,1945) - May 15th, 2003 The Dresden bombing is a strongly debated decision, and the action is still widely perceived as lacking military justification, even within the context of the controversial area bombing policy pursued against Germany by Britain's Bomber Command in 1942-1945. This directive led to the raid on Dresden and marked the erosion of one last moral restriction in the bombing war: the term "evacuation from the east" did not refer to retreating troops but to the civilian refugees fleeing from the advancing Russians. It has been claimed that the bombing was at the request of Russia, to attack a German armoured division in transit through the city. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/911999/posts   (13246 words)

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