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A month after Dresden Churchill sent a draft memoto Charles Portal, head of the RAF...

A month after Dresden Churchill sent a draft memo
to Charles Portal, head of the RAF critical of bombing policy

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A month after Dresden
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Churchill sent a draft memo to Charles Portal, head of the RAF
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critical of bombing policy.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
01:34:59
Uploaded
Mar 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
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The Lancaster Bomber, synonymous with the Dambusters and night raids on Nazi Germany.
Although it was later re— written, lasting damage was done - Lancaster 00:09
Although it was later re— written, lasting damage was done
I'm pretty sure politics came into this - Lancaster 00:14
I'm pretty sure politics came into this
Churchill sent to the Portal a list of targets - Lancaster 00:08
Churchill sent to the Portal a list of targets
He was more interested in politics - Lancaster 00:06
He was more interested in politics
He was afraid of the consequences, that he'd ordered this slaughter - Lancaster 00:12
He was afraid of the consequences, that he'd ordered th...
So poor old Harris was blamed - Lancaster 00:10
So poor old Harris was blamed
The war in Europe ended on May 8th, 1945. - Lancaster 00:07
The war in Europe ended on May 8th, 1945.
I still think that it was necessary. - Lancaster 00:05
I still think that it was necessary.
We lost a lot of men, we lost women and children - Lancaster 00:07
We lost a lot of men, we lost women and children
But then, wherever you go, war is war, isn't it? - Lancaster 00:06
But then, wherever you go, war is war, isn't it?
And it's always the civilians that cop it the worst. - Lancaster 00:06
And it's always the civilians that cop it the worst.
I suppose one could say that it was futile really - Lancaster 00:15
I suppose one could say that it was futile really
Any country which can sanction that deserves any punishment that they can get. - Lancaster 00:08
Any country which can sanction that deserves any punishment ...
If we hadn't have bombed Germany, we wouldn't have won the war. - Lancaster 00:06
If we hadn't have bombed Germany, we wouldn't have...
So I think that that saved a lot of lives - Lancaster 00:08
So I think that that saved a lot of lives
Or Cologne or Frankfurt, or Bremen or Munich in the south. - Lancaster 00:08
Or Cologne or Frankfurt, or Bremen or Munich in the south.
I know it was terrible - Lancaster 00:09
I know it was terrible
That was the way they fought each other, was bombing each other. - Lancaster 00:05
That was the way they fought each other, was bombing each ot...
I mean - Lancaster 00:10
I mean
The world that we live in today - Lancaster 00:09
The world that we live in today