The Civilian Cost

You were too preoccupied really with completing your bombing duties to dwell too much on what happened elsewhere. We knew that those factories were in the center of a city and damage to the civilians was severe, not only that but generally employed slave labor from countries that they had invaded and taken population from those countries as laborers and their barracks, they purposely put their barracks around those factories so we knew there were casualties, civilian casualties they couldn’t help that but that was... part of the war is you try and destroy the target. It was difficult but there again, we knew that we had to continue because, if not, the consequences of not winning the war was too horrible to even contemplate.