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“It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.”

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John Thomason

John Thomason was a renowned author whose works spanned a variety of fields, including history, literature, and philosophy. His life was filled with a passion for exploration and creation, leaving a profound impact on posterity. more

“I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.”

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Author:Sheryl Crow

“A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.”

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Book:In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

“We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly.”

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Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?”

“Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.”

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Author:Neville Chamberlain

“War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.”

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Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.”

“Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride. . . . We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea.”

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Author:John W. Weeks

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