tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post294881993393634191..comments2023-12-27T22:36:01.407-06:00Comments on Anna's Clue Tank: The Lies of DresdenAnnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364196938058625069noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-4200924333400105782007-12-27T07:42:00.000-06:002007-12-27T07:42:00.000-06:00Hello Anna,I was on the dresden raid my a/c. 9J-P ...Hello Anna,<BR/>I was on the dresden raid my a/c. 9J-P 227 squadron 5 Group.<BR/>There were two waves some hours apart. My Group 5 Group carried ou the first raid. The second wave was carried out by 3 Group. Total RAF a/c. about 750. The aiming point for the target indicators being the marshalling yards.<BR/>It had initally been planned that the Us. had planned for the first raid during the day of th 12th. canx. due to weather conditions.<BR/>At pre flight briefing we were told that there were known to be large concentrations of military transitting through Dresden between the Eastern & Western Fronts. Hindsight experts are saying that we should not have bombed Dresden due to the war's near end, I wish that they had been there at the time because the US. 2nd. Army were under severe atack & losing ground. German resistance was very stiff & our armies had to face up to the crossing of the Rhine. It did not look too rosy at the time to those of us involvedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-10709206537539721012007-11-11T13:49:00.000-06:002007-11-11T13:49:00.000-06:00Thanks Pat, I am tempted to re-edit what I posted....Thanks Pat, I am tempted to re-edit what I posted. Clean up some sloppy sentence structure. And I should show the casualty figures Irving and Storm claim happened at Dresden since I did list the USAF and RAF casualty estimates.<BR/><BR/>Check the LGF post on Remembering Our Veterans. One poster relates his tour of the B-29 Enola Gay at Dulles and the tour guide telling the story of this elderly Japanese gentleman who recounted he was supposed to be a suicide pilot, but because of the Enola Gay he lived to have a family with children and grandchildren.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13364196938058625069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-67082694145217032712007-11-10T20:34:00.000-06:002007-11-10T20:34:00.000-06:00Good work, AnnaNext, Hiroshima. A great essay in A...Good work, Anna<BR/><BR/>Next, Hiroshima. A great essay in American Heritage a few years ago debunking the revisionists. PatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com