1 / 59

Both Sides Agree Not to Bomb Civilians

"What is the difference between throwing 500 babies into a fire and throwing fire from aeroplanes on 500 babies? There is none.” --British Captain Philip S. Mumford, 1937. Both Sides Agree Not to Bomb Civilians. Washington Post headline September 3, 1939.

lieu
Download Presentation

Both Sides Agree Not to Bomb Civilians

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. "What is the difference between throwing 500 babies into a fire and throwing fire from aeroplanes on 500 babies? There is none.” --British Captain Philip S. Mumford, 1937

  2. Both Sides Agree Not to Bomb Civilians Washington Post headline September 3, 1939

  3. USAAF General Curtis LeMay“There are no innocent Jap civilians.”

  4. “Another popular fallacy is to suppose that flying machines could be used to drop dynamite on an enemy in time of war.” --William H. Pickering, 1908

  5. “When my brother and I built the first man-carrying flying machine we thought that we were introducing into the world an invention which would make further wars practically impossible.” --Orville Wright, 1917

  6. 1903 Wright brothers’ first flight 1916 German Gotha raids on London 1922 Guilio Douhet publishes Command of the Air 1937 German destruction of Guernica 1939 1945 Firebombing of Japan begins (3 Feb 1945) Allied destruction of Dresden (13 Feb 1945) Destruction of Tokyo (9-10 Mar 1945) Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (6 Aug 1945) Atomic bombing of Nagasaki (9 Aug 1945) Firebombing of Tokyo (10 August 1945) Surrender of Japan (15 August 1945) London Blitz 1940-1941 Combined Bomber Offensive 1943-1945

  7. “Air power may either end war or end civilization.”--Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 14 March 1933

  8. “It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.”--US Colonel John W. Thomason Jr., November 1937 Hiroshima, August 1945

  9. "What is the difference between throwing 500 babies into a fire and throwing fire from aeroplanes on 500 babies? There is none.” --British Captain Philip S. Mumford, 1937

  10. “War Without Mercy on a Treacherous Foe”December 10, 1941

  11. World War II bombing casualties Dresden 18,000-40,000 Hiroshima 70,000-80,000 Nagasaki 45,000-70,000 Tokyo more than 100,000

More Related