[TV] Channel 5 PM War Films

[studio150]

And overlapping both films on ITV4 The Longest Day


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[wunt be druv]

Have to dispute that, disrupting the water supply to the Ruhr Industries was not 'negligible'.

And all bombing is a 'bad thing' if you are of that persuasion. Bombing Nazi Germany was not a bad thing in my view.

The propaganda value of the raid was immense and a huge boost to public morale, never nice when "innocent" people die but Hitler had absolutely no qualms whatsoever on inflicting death and misery on civilians "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 Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They have sown the wind, and so they shall reap the whirlwind."

 

[jakarta]

The propaganda value of the raid was immense and a huge boost to public morale, never nice when "innocent" people die but Hitler had absolutely no qualms whatsoever on inflicting death and misery on civilians "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 Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They have sown the wind, and so they shall reap the whirlwind."

55,000 Bomber Command crew died during the war, including the majority of the Dams Raid crews in later operations.