Talk:Bombing of Cologne in World War II

message: Might someone consider adding this link, which is a translation of the Nazi pamphlet on the bombing of Cologne:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/cologne.htm
It's my site, so I won't do it myself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bytwerk (talk • contribs) 02:53, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK - I've added it - interesting contemporary point of view. Ian Dunster 19:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A link to consider 

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message: Should Operation Millennium have its own article rather than redirecting here? Other towns besides Cologne were attacked as part of the plan. Drutt (talk) 19:45, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Operation Millennium

message: The numbers don't quite add up.2.31.103.125 (talk) 20:39, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Losses? 

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message: The line "It was expected[by whom?] that the devastation from such raids might be enough to knock Germany out of the war or at least severely damage German morale."
There was a huge debate as to whether this was feasible. To answer the query by whom, Harris, Portal,and Justice Singleton to name just three.
The following quote is from the Wikipedia page entitled "dehousing", and agrees with what I know on the subject. It also contains links to verification sources  
Mr. Justice Singleton, a High Court Judge was asked by the Cabinet to look into the competing points of view. In his report, delivered on 20 May 1942 he concluded that:
    If Russia can hold Germany on land I doubt whether Germany will stand 12 or 18 months’ continuous, intensified and increased bombing, affecting, as it must, her war production, her power of resistance, her industries and her will to resist (by which I mean morale).[14][15][16]
Can I suggest you remove the "by whom" and just use the same referencesPatrickblue (talk) 01:34, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  It was expected (by whom?) 

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message: The article appears to be wrong to claim that all Cologne raids were by the RAF. The US Eighth Air Force carried out two attacks on Ford-Werke, the enormous Ford plant a couple of miles outside the city centre, in October 1944. The first was by a single combat wing of about 130 B-17s, the second by two combat wings of about 100 B-17s each. In all the bombers delivered over 600 tons, half HE, half incendiary. None of it hit Ford or even came close (the nearest reported strikes were about a mile and a half to the northwest), because the first attack met with 3/10 to 10/10 cloud cover and the second met with 6/10 to 10/10. The USAAF did not lay on any further raids because they had received intelligence that Ford-Werke was working at greatly reduced capacity and was no longer of very much importance. (This would be due to the effect of RAF area bombing on the city's infrastructure, and RAF and USAAF bombing of other cities on which Ford-Werke depended for supplies, and on the transport links between cities.)
https://jasonweixelbaum.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/debunking-conspiracy-ford-werke-and-the-allied-bombing-campaign-of-cologne/
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message: How did the UK Government evaluate the operation? Valetude (talk) 00:09, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Success or failure?