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> when she walked to school, very often US fighters shot at the children walking there. Here's a documentary shot in 1944 that proudly and joyfully tells the s
by stefantalpalaru 11y ago
> when she walked to school, very often US fighters shot at the children walking there.
Here's a documentary shot in 1944 that proudly and joyfully tells the story of an air squadron based in Corsica that was bombing civilian targets in northern Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt!
They bombed and shot at houses, farms, trains, people in the fields, etc. The narrator is having fun around the 26:00 mark - "Somebody in that field. Wonder who they are... No friends of mine!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0erLVkqvPb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0erLVkqvPb0
This would not fall under terrorism, but under war crimes. But war crimes only matter if you lose the war, right?
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- dTal 11y agoShooting at people in fields is irresponsible, but as the train and one of the houses blew up with terrific explosions I would hesitate to deem them "civilian targets". Fantastic link.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoI think they knew exactly what they were doing. Shooting the civilian population behind the front line creates problems for the enemy who will now have to divert resources to hospitalize the wounded, deal with a lower agricultural production, a weaker public transportation, a drop in morale, etc.
- kuschku 11y agoIn fact, the concept used in WWII became known as "morale bombing"