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A guy called Harris had wanted to lead ‘Bomber Command’. He wanted to use terror tactics with large scale night time area bombing.
Would that has been as effective as the targeting of communication bottle necks.
For sure damage was always repaired. However every night a hundred key points were disrupted.
The Mosquito squadrons suffered appalling casualties with their dawn and dusk raids on railroad, canal and road links. This happened even after the Mustangs escorted them.
There have been moral questions about the use of delayed action bombs with leaflets. As we know numbers of Nazi victims were forced to work in this dangerous context.
Of course a great deal of disruption was caused by this strategy. Would more direct targeting of the Cities have been more effective?