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Dresden: The World War Two bombing 75 years on By Toby Luckhurst BBC News 13 February 2020"The firestorm is incredible... Insane fear grips me and from then on I repeat one simple sentence to myself continuously: 'I don't want to burn to death'. I do not know how many people I fell over. I know only one thing: that I must not burn."On 13 February 1945, British aircraft launched an attack on the eastern German city of Dresden. In the days that followed, they and their US allies would drop nearly 4,000 tons of bombs in the assault.The ensuing firestorm killed 25,000 people, ravaging the city centre, sucking the oxygen from the air and suffocating people trying to escape the flames. Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51448486
Monday morning quarterbacking using current technologies to bash past actions.In those days, we had to drop hundreds of bombs to take out a target, not just one or two.Bombing accuracy was 50% luck and 50% prayer.