Letter: Neither glory nor guilt for the heroesof Bomber Command

G. Harrap
Saturday 13 August 1994 23:02 BST
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GEOFFREY Wheatcroft's article implies that the only effect of the bombing was the futile destruction of cities and the killing of non-combatants. A better authority might be Albert Speer, the German armaments minister, who wrote in prison in Spandau: 'The Allied bombing campaign was a true second front. It cost us the equivalent of 6,000 tanks and 10,000 field guns.'

G Harrap

Sherborne, Dorset

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