world war ii guide Was the American Bombing Campaign in World War II a War Crime?
. This may have been the most devasting single raid ever carried out by aircraft in any war including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. </quote The bonmbng campaign against the Germans and the Japs was the best application of the available technology to gain legitimate war aims. Assumed necessity creates *very weak* moral justification for killing civilians in 5 digit ranges. I disagree. People & Events: Japanese Atrocities in the Philippines On December 14, 1945, Japanese soldiers forced 150 American prisoners of war at a compound on Palawan into an air-raid shelter. Then they doused them with gasoline and threw in a match. [...] They didn't -have- to murder our POW's. We HAD to bomb their cities because their resistance