Neither America’s nor Britain’s population protested on a large scale Allied bombing campaigns during World War II. Many historians say that a sort of holy war mentality had taken over, overriding any moral outrage the population would have ordinarily expressed. Americans and Brits are said to have “feared the consequence of not acting forcefully against… 
Archive for March 2011
Just War Part 14: Holy War Protest
Just War Part 13: American Bombers in WWII
What exactly was America’s war ethic during World War II?
Depends.
There’s the official policy stated at the beginning of the war: American military leaders announced they would be differentiating noncombatants from combatants. The air force declared it would bomb only facilities which directly supported the enemy’s military.
“During World War II the United States Air Forces (AAF)…
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