Intresting Picture of Bremen, Germany..

[Marlin]

Circa:1945

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-87048-galleryV9-eixi.jpg


I may have been in that same area 40 years later.

[ronaldrwl]

What should I be seeing Marlin?

[Hoosier]

We fucked that place up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Bremen_in_World_War_II

Not as bad as Dresden though

H.

[blackford76]

I think he is showing us a BDA photo after the B-17's visited, looks like an incindiary raid.

[Ridge]

Looks like a coal plant or some sort of refinery, and some storage tanks under construction...

I like this pic, better...

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/3714/image87016galleryv9tdon.jpg

[Marlin]

I just thought it was interesting because I was there 40 years later.. It was in a little better shape..[Abused]

Part of the 8th AAF's "Urban renewal plan"

[SNAFU]

Think it was directive 22? Joint ops with RAF and US Air Force

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II


The firebombing of Dresden is the actual event described by Kurt Vonnegent in "Slaughter House 5". He was a POW at the time,in Dresden,during the raids.
Follow this down to his WWII service

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

http://www.erichufschmid.net/EyewitnessToDresden.html

[Hoosier]

Think it was directive 22? Joint ops with RAF and US Air Force

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II


The firebombing of Dresden is the actual event described by Kurt Vonnegent in "Slaughter House 5". He was a POW at the time,in Dresden,during the raids.
Follow this down to his WWII service

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

http://www.erichufschmid.net/EyewitnessToDresden.html

Here's the actual letter from Vonnegut to his family telling them he's alive:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/slaughterhouse-five.html

His house wasn't far from my last apartment in Indianapolis.

H.

[Troublco]

That's an interesting letter. I've read Slaughterhouse Five, years ago, and I remember it being an unusual read.