On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:55:45 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

Dresden: Payback for the London Blitz, and an industrial center to boot.

Revenge, yes. Military target, no. And you don't intentionally start
firestorms in residential districts for military purposes. You start those
fires for the purpose of terror, as we also did in Tokyo.

Let slip the bats of war ....
Operation X-Ray ...
http://www.americanheritage.com/arti...982_3_88.shtml
--
Cliff