The opinions of the time were harsh. Many Americans justified the bombing with the realization that war in Japan would have cost many, many more lives on all sides — American, Allies, Japanese, and civilians. The race for the a-bomb was incredibly close. Upon takeover of German labs, Al...
Bombing of Urban Areas During World War II and the Bosnian War Approximately 63% of Hiroshima was destroyed by the atomic bomb. Considerable portions of the urban forests in cities in Europe and Japan were impacted by bombing during WWII. Firebombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Tokyo took serious...
While fighting in Europe during WWII, Kurt Vonnegut was taken prisoner and sent to work at a German prison camp where he witnessed one of the most destructive events of WWII, the firebombing of Dresden, Germany by the Allied forces. Although Vonnegut was liberated in 1945, the novel about ...
However, the evaluation and test flight process extended until 1943, during which the prototype was either lost or severely damaged in one of the numerous Allied bombing raids.Amidst the pressing demands of concurrent projects, such as the development of the Me 262, the Me 109Z initiative was ...
Not long after their arrival in Europe in December 1944, Kenny and Mel would be captured along with other Allied Forces during the Battle of the Bulge. They would spend the next couple months in a Nazi prison camp north of Dresden, Germany. The pair would eventually decide they would rather...
In August 1943 (less than a month after the firebombing of Hamburg), after preparations that must have begun sometime earlier, there was a notice announcing the future introduction of RLM 81 and 82, which were to replace RLM 70 and 71. Almost a year later (in July 1944, by which time...
Still, the only people to even come close to the Japanese having performed human vivisection, cannibalism, competitive baby bayonneting, forced prostitution of seniors, and weapons testing on random civilians were the Nazis and we don’t cry for their ...
services for the victims of the firebombing of Tokyo. Van Buren’s anti-war classic of Kyoto incinerated like Dresden left me shaken at the choices we make, the choices we seemingly have to make, and all of their bastard sequelae. Van Buren flays with the shrapnel of an alternate history...
Because after the first one you can remember bodies become repetitive until all that matters is how many of them their are. The GOAT is six million, anything else something… less, made to matter by evoking the six million, or the 500 from My Lai, or 35,000 from Dresden, or the 800...
112). As the first German Trümmerfilm, The Murderers Are Among Us underscores the impact of the Allied bombing of, and artillery battles fought in, European cities, which resulted in Germany’s destruction. The fact that The Murderers Are Among Us was the first film created in Germany by...