Talk:Aerial bombing of cities

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photo caption[edit]

I know this is different, but there is a photo with the following slightly erroneous caption:

"The remains of German town of Wesel after intensive allied area bombing in 1945 (destruction rate 97% of all buildings)"

97% is the level of destruction, but it's not a rate. From the wiki article on "rate":

"A rate is a special kind of ratio, indicating a relationship between two measurements with different units, such as miles to gallons or cents to pounds."

What then, is a small error of writing, grammatical, thecnical, call it what you want, the fact is that during all the bombings that Wesel suffer during the war, about 97% of the city was level. Erick Muller, 14:30 11 June 2007. {{subst:unsigned2|20:31, 11 June 2007|148.245.246.116}

Training for atom bombing of cities[edit]

During the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command's 1st Combat Evaluation Group deployed radar bomb scoring units from Barksdale Air Force Base on board military railroad cars to score simulated thermonuclear bombing of cities in the continental United States.^[1]

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When all of the B-52s black boxes accomplished the preset magic the designers intended, there were no targets anyplace on planet earth that could not be obliterated with unerring accuracy....

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Maier^[2]

References

^ "In regards to the SAC radar bomb scoring squadron mounted on railroad cars" (PDF). Mobile Military Radar web site. 22 Feb 2007. pp. 12K. Retrieved 30 Aug 2010. The trains were 21 cars long, 17 support and 4 radar cars. The radar cars were basically flat cars with the radar vans and equipment mounted on them. The other 17 consisted of a generator car, two box cars (one for radar equipment maintenance, and one for support maintenance). A dining car, two day-room cars, supply cars, admin car, and 4 Pullman sleepers.... The Commander had the very last room on the tail of the train.... The trains would go to some area in the U.S. which was selected for that period by a regular contracted locomotive which then just parked us there and left, usually pulled onto a siding.
^ Maier, Lothar Nick (©2002.). B*U*F*F : (big, ugly, fat, f*****) : a novel from the B-52 Vietnam bombing operations. Plano, Texas: Lambis Ltd. Press. Co-published by Trafford Publishing. pp. p.132. ISBN 978-1553950493. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)

--Pawyilee (talk) 17:54, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WWI city bombing[edit]

The article, and the linked article mention Germany bombing Britain and (now) British bombing plan. What of German activities against French towns and vice versa etc.? GraemeLeggett (talk) 07:34, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have read that the French and Germans bombed towns on the border in the opening days of the war. (165.120.184.15 (talk) 15:20, 17 July 2016 (UTC))[reply]

Earliest aerial bombing of cities[edit]

This article is inconsistent. It begins by stating "A species of strategic bombing, the aerial bombing of cities began in 1915 during World War I". It then goes on to list cases of aerial city bombardment going back to 1849. Mat Teja (talk) 09:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A more sensible article would be "aerial bombardment of civilians"[edit]

The 'cities' limitation is silly; you can't discuss the bombing of towns and villages? Such an article also wouldn't limit itself as "a species of strategic bombing," would not focus exclusively on bombardment during warfare, and would reference 'policing' and terror bombardment of civilian populations during the colonial and neo-colonial eras.Haberstr (talk) 08:04, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] "In regards to the SAC radar bomb scoring squadron mounted on railroad cars" (PDF). Mobile Military Radar web site. 22 Feb 2007. pp. 12K. Retrieved 30 Aug 2010. The trains were 21 cars long, 17 support and 4 radar cars. The radar cars were basically flat cars with the radar vans and equipment mounted on them. The other 17 consisted of a generator car, two box cars (one for radar equipment maintenance, and one for support maintenance). A dining car, two day-room cars, supply cars, admin car, and 4 Pullman sleepers.... The Commander had the very last room on the tail of the train.... The trains would go to some area in the U.S. which was selected for that period by a regular contracted locomotive which then just parked us there and left, usually pulled onto a siding.

[2] Maier, Lothar Nick (©2002.). B*U*F*F : (big, ugly, fat, f*****) : a novel from the B-52 Vietnam bombing operations. Plano, Texas: Lambis Ltd. Press. Co-published by Trafford Publishing. pp. p.132. ISBN 978-1553950493. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)

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