Gardner6LXB
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I've recently read 'Bomber Offensive'. Written by Bomber Harris in 1947, it is a proper eye opener of how and why tactics and planning happened as they did. As primary source evidence, you will see bias - but what I found really interesting, and is not widely understood (I think) is the level to which not Bomber Cmd, not the RAF - but the government and Churchill in particular, influenced policy, in terms of both targetting and amount of resource dedicated to the bomber campaign.
Churchill actively encouraged Harris in his area bombing campaign throughout, then distances himself from it at the end, as I’m sure we all already know. A bit of a low thing to do. The fact that Bomber Cmd went officially unrecognised for all those years is a travesty.