A sad double death notice

[Maurice]

This death notice I saw once on Ebay. I think it's an very touching example. The wife of a pilot killed in München, and the pilot himself trying to defend his country and to prevent the killings, like happend to his wife.

Any more of such examples?

Kind regards,

Maurice

[luftkrieg]

Thanks for posting this touching example. I have never seen one like this before.

Pierce

[Jean-Loup]

Indeed, a very specil one, that sure puts a personal face and twist to the Allied air raids.

[KM-NZ]

amazing .... in the morbid way

[Mart90]

A somber piece.

Thanks for posting.

[MikeStrong]

Touching

Very touching! I don't think I've seen one like this before. Very sad. She dies and then he dies 5 months later in combat. I am sure there are so many of these stories out there.

[ballista]

What kind of terrorist attack in Munich was in the July 13, 1944?
The American bombing of the city?

[portraithunter]

Really an ironic fate. I myself have sometimes found such a death image on ebay. And it was quite touching. Especially since I myself am born in Dresden. But as others have said there were certainly many such stories, not just in Germany. But also for families who never cheered on this war.

[johninhb]

To Ballista....

Yes....the German's always referred to the Anglo-American saturation bombing of their major population centers as 'Terror Attacks'.

I don't blame them for calling these air raids 'Terrorangriff', as I too believe that is exactly what they were.
There's never honor in slaughtering civilians on such a scale, no matter which side you are on.

May GOD have mercy on ALL the innocents of WWII.

[randy@treadways]

I've always heard that Americans did the daylight strategic bombing of industrial and military targets (with some ancillary civilian damage due to the relatively crude bombsight technology available), while the British did the incendiary carpet bombing of population centers during the night....why?
....night bombsight technology made strategic target bombing impossible
....some revenge for German bombing of British cities
....British bombers didn't have the defensive capabilities of the Flying Fortresses to allow them to fly daylight missions

The British targeting strategy against civilian populations is usually laid at the feet of Sir Arthur Harris. Even when technology improved late in the war and British squadron commanders wanted to expand their target list, Harris is said to have turned them down and told them to stick to the cities.

Harris pretty much copied his rationale from that of General William Tecumseh Sherman in the American civil war, to destroy the capacity of the enemy population to feed and clothe both itself and its military. In his view, the German economy itself was the engine that kept the crank turning on the German war machine, so the economy had to be devastated to incapacitate the war machine. "People" were just the puzzle pieces of the economy. Sherman's was a land campaign. Harris did it by air.