A Short Film

[Tribesman]

Yes indeed, though, once again, that picture specifically isn't being used to make a specific point on a make of aircraft used. The fact it is a bomber was enough for me to include it, as it was very early in the morning when I made this, and it was near the top of my Google searches, and an American plane. Please don't think I'm using the fact it was a dive bomber to make a point - it was just oversight.

Well Mars you did ask for constructive criticism .
It appears your work is about the allied strategic bombing raids , the carpet bombing of german towns and cities resulting in high civilian casualties and displacement .
A dive bomber just doesn't fit with the topic very well , and a navy dive bomber from the pacific theatre just really doesn't fit .

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Well Mars you did ask for constructive criticism .
It appears your work is about the allied strategic bombing raids , the carpet bombing of german towns and cities resulting in high civilian casualties and displacement .
A dive bomber just doesn't fit with the topic very well , and a navy dive bomber from the pacific theatre just really doesn't fit .

That I did, point accepted. I'm just explaining that the dive bomber is merely a coincidence, and you are quite right in pointing out that oversight I made.

[Kralizec]

A moving video. Well done, though I still had trouble reading some of the text in the first half of the video.

I already knew about the Allied bombing campaigns against German cities, and it's a tragedy. I'm no WWII expert, but I doubt it actually had the intended effect and as such their deaths were senseless.

That said, if I were pulling the strings back then and I knew what they knew at the time, I'd probably have ordered the same thing.

[Hepcat]

A moving video. Well done, though I still had trouble reading some of the text in the first half of the video.

I already knew about the Allied bombing campaigns against German cities, and it's a tragedy. I'm no WWII expert, but I doubt it actually had the intended effect and as such their deaths were senseless.

That said, if I were pulling the strings back then and I knew what they knew at the time, I'd probably have ordered the same thing.

Yeah, you're right. They thought that by displacing enough people they would drain German resources and sap the will of the Germans to continue. But as the World At War series states: "The Germans, like the British, found they could take it."

Also according to the people interviewed it brought everyone together through their mutual suffering, regardless of their political views.

So I think they achieved the sapping of resources, but not really weakening of morale.

Though the bombing of Hamburg still stuns me. That was very much overkill and it's interesting that the colour footage of the bombing, which had been filmed by a German on the ground, was confiscated by the British immediately after the war to try and keep their name clean.