Re:David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies a...
by Someone on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:30PM
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Optimist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Report:
“Of those aircraft recorded as attacking their target, only one in three got within 5 mi (8.0 km).”
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/thea... has data for later years. It got better, but stayed bad.
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/1008daylight/:
“Bombing accuracy was terrible. The average circular error in 1943 was 1,200 feet, meaning that only 16 percent of the bombs fell within 1,000 feet of the aiming point”
Re:David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies a...
by rad_gruchalski on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:21PM
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I agree. Hence the scale of the bombings in WW2. But the camp operated multiple years. Maybe there was a price to pay but in the long run, maybe it would have been worth taking a chance. We will never now, it’s a maybe game.
Re:David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies a...
by kevinmchugh on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:58AM
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We're Monday morning quarterbacking, but I wonder if destroying the railroad lines into the camps would've been effective. Less chance for a missed bomb to kill camp prisoners, lots of opportunity to hit the tracks.
I think the same trains or tracks that carried prisoners carried the (paltry) food for the camps, so I guess it's a trolley problem still.
Objectives (such as bridges) were often missed by hundreds of meters.