They started off using letters A,B,C etc.

You are both choosing to miss the point, as I’m sure you are aware the war in europe was over, and for most people of Britain that meant the war itself was over.

The Japanese weren’t going to attack mainland Britain, and in a broader sense you could equate the war in the far east with Afganistan or Iraq,(of today) a long way away and (relatively speaking) very few people involved.

I think CD makes a valid point, that the Nazi’s were looking at damage limitation, (by the time the Dresden raid takes place) Goebels simply adds a zero to the death toll inflating the figures from 25000 to 250000, knowing the full horror of the concentration camps was about to be exposed.

The documentary also mentions that post war the Russians encouraged the people of Dresden to commemorate the bombing, stirring up bad feeling towards the west.

Churchill fails to mention Bomber command in his VE day address, which in my view was a matter of poor judgement, (he never mentioned the done work at station x either, for a different reason maybe)

Some how the allies had to pull themselves up from the mire of war; queensbury rules will get you killed, you have to be equally vicious as your opponent to win, but once you have won what then? swords maybe turned into ploughshares, but human beings are a little more complex, it takes a long time to forgive and forget, but equally most non combatants were sick of the war by it’s end, happy to move on to a bright future………..

Is the answer Winston Churchill?

The right answer is, all of us

In our efforts to cleanse ourselves, post war, and remove ourselves from a position where the crys of “war criminals” might find sympathetic ears, (around the world) we abandoned those you did our dirty work for us; why else was the Labour govt elected imediately post war?

What if the AM had fast tracked “Mitchells bomber” and in 1940, the response to the Luftwaffe attacks, was the carpet bombing of Berlin?

Better off discussing the b12/36; at least that existed.

Yes I see what you mean; some of us do start projects, and push them to the back of the hangar/shed for a while, I’ve done it myself, either sold on or rekindled at a later date.

When roasting one must take care not to burn ones own fingers….accusations of armchair whatever do appear to have fallen short of the mark.

We have the right to expect value for money, in everything we purchase, but
really, we must wait until we are in posession of the goods before complaining; don’t forget you get to look around the museum, and that costs £16 ish on a non event day.

Only the seven year interlude then!