Bombing of Germany, National Geographic

This documentary might as well have been prepared by Joseph Gobbles himself. The standards that one would expect for journalism from a group like National Geographic were so far below expectations of a fair assessment of the strategic bombing campaign that is it disgusting. Some quick facts that were omitted include (but not limited to): - The US Air Force in now way conducted 'precision bombing' as much as they liked to suggest. Their bombers toggled bomb loads when their 'master bomber' in the lead bomber released his bombs. To call that precision bombing as the so called experts did in this show is to say the moon is made of cheese. - The British bombing at night was not simply arrive over target city and drop at will. The experts suggest there were no targets of interest to the British simply an area bombing of the city itself. This is complete and utter rubbish. Any cursorary examination of The Pathfinders Squadron would show that their entire role was to go in ahead of the bomber stream, highlight specific targets as best possible through 'target indicators' or what we might simply call flares, and to have the bomber stream bomb that TI indication as accurately as possible given the circumstances. This too was not precision bombing but it was much more than simply showing up over a city and emptying a bomb bay indiscriminately as this show would suggest. - Albert Speer, the Nazi Armourment's minster, in his memoirs that he wrote when he had considerable time to reflect while sitting in Spandua prison, said that the single largest impact on the war from the German perspective was the combined bomber offensive. - While this bombing was going on, there were may civilian casualties in Germany. The show didn't bother to mention however at the same time this was occuring millions, yes millions, of Jews were being tortured, gassed, and incinerated in the Concentration camps. The show went into considerable discussion on who had the moral high ground....and that the US 8th Air Force and earlier the RAF had somehow lost their morality. Excuse me....millions of Jews killed by the Nazi's, propped up the general German population (which makes them accomplices whether they like it or not) is certainly the moral low ground. It's only revisionists and apologists that would consider that RAF and 8th Air Force to be on the same plane morally as the Nazi's. Pathetic indeed. This show should be clearly marked as the propoganda that it is. Kind Regards, Hugh Peden Maple Ridge BC