Thats the problem with todays wars. Too many times people have seen surgical strikes spareing innocent lives and seem to forget that some wars need to be decisive instead of humane.
Carpet bombing Bagdad at the beginning of the war would have done alot more to prevent alot of the problems we are seeing in Iraq now. They would have known what we are capable of doing.
Well put.
Plus to answer the original question.
Since they tended to move around aot there werent as many "hardened" airfeilds back then. And it doesnt takew as much to destroy a plane on the ground as it would say, a brick building.
Therefore you didnt need such heavy ordinance as you would for a brick building
Plus. anything, even a penny being dropped from 10,000+ feet is going to cause damage if it hits something.
Dropping the smaller ord probobly has several purposes.
You could drop alot more individual bombs thus increasing your chances of hittting something as well as killing the enemy.
Look at it this way in game.
You can take up a bomber with ALOT of small ord. and any one of those bombs is more then enough to destroy a plane on the ground.
But it takes alot more of that same ord to destroy a building in a city.
