The Ethics Of Bombing Dresden
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The Ethics Of Bombing Dresden - Lt Col Raymond H. Wilcox
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The Ethics of Bombing Dresden
by
Lt Col Raymond H. Wilcox
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
ABSTRACT 5
PREFACE 6
BACKGROUND 7
Just War Theory 7
The War 7
THE INTERWAR YEARS 9
BOMBING TECHNIQUES 10
The RAF Approach 10
The USAAF Approach 10
CONFERENCES 12
Arcadia 12
Casablanca 12
Yalta 12
THE GENERALS 14
Carl A. (Tooey) Spaatz 14
Henry Hap
Arnold 14
Ira Eaker 15
ADVANCES IN BOMBING TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY 17
HAMBURG RAID 19
DRESDEN FIRESTORM 21
CONCLUSIONS 24
APPENDIX 25
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 27
BIBLIOGRAPHY 28
ABSTRACT
This study describes the events, doctrine, and technical developments of World War II (WWII) that led to the destruction by area bombing of the city of Dresden and the deaths of 135,000 of its citizens. Prior to our entry into WWII our bombing strategy was to employ large numbers of high altitude bombers with heavy defensive firepower, flying in formation, using precision daylight bombardment. This ethical bombing technique was observed early on in WWII, but at some point the ethic changed. Why? Was it a change in the