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BATTLE OF HAMBURG
(Investigator 218, 2024 September)
"To win WWII and save Earth from Nazi domination and global
extermination of alleged inferior
races the USA had to kill children. Britain also, almost 5000 in one night in 1943." (#217 p. 38) Investigator #217 p. 38 omitted the words "Britain also", giving the impression the USA killed 5000 children in one night, whereas it was Britain's RAF. The Battle of Hamburg consisted of six air raids between July 24 and August 3, 1943. Four were by the RAF, two by the USAAF. On the fourth attack (July 27) 722 RAF aircraft dropped 2320 tons of bombs. This created the Hamburg "firestorm", fires and smoke on a scale rarely ever seen before: "It seemed as though the whole of Hamburg was on fire ... a huge column of smoke was towering well above us and we were on 20,000 feet." On the ground it was horrific. Buildings across entire suburbs blazed and collapsed. People roasted under rubble, got stuck on molten asphalt, became human torches running frantically toward canals, or got blown aloft by hurricane-force winds. Middlebrook (1984) writes that 44,600 civilians and 800 service men were killed in the six air raids, of whom about 40,000 died in the one night of the firestorm. Furthermore:
...15,802 of the dead were identified in the following proportions:
women, 50 per cent; men, 38 per cent; children 12
per cent. If this proportion is applied to the total dead, it might be assumed that the fatal casualties were divided as follows: women 22,500; men, 17,100; and children, 5400. (p. 328) These are the totals for all six air raids. An estimate of child deaths on the firestorm night would be 12% of 40,000 = 4800. In #217 I rounded this out to 5000. 552 Allied airmen also died. Middlebrook, M. 1984 The Battle of Hamburg, Penguin. (A) |