Waffen SS Squad?

[saantana]

we did fire bomb civillians, some estimate one million died in one night, all civillians.  15.8 square miles were burned. 1.5 million people lived in that area.  I do not believe this was necessary.

Show me your source. I think you tripped there.

[saantana]

I severly doubt 1 million civilians were killed in 1 night. The worst I know of was something like 250,000. If we invaded Japan, we would have had to kill EVERY single person there. You've seen the videos of the civilians jumping off of cliffs, the crazy banzai charges. We'd have to kil 95% of the population in Japan. The Firebombing raids to scare them was needed.

I do not think killing innocent civilians is at all needed in any war.
It is unacceptable regardless.
However there are different scenarios as to ways in which this was not done, and the reasons behind that is what we are debating.

[bj229r]

I do not think killing innocent civilians is at all needed in any war.
It is unacceptable regardless.
However there are different scenarios as to ways in which this was not done, and the reasons behind that is what we are debating.

That viewpoint was why the Vietnam war meandered on for a decade, and the exponentially larger WW2 was over in 4 years. If you lived in Hanoi, you'd scarcely have noticed for the first 8=odd years that there WAS a war. In ww2 we bombed the crap out of everything--if there was a factory that built something important within a town of 500,000, we flattened said town with waves of Lancs by night and B17's/B24's by day until said factory was poofers. War can't be an an antiseptic event. (Anyone remember thing lobbing missiles into an empty factory at 3am, to minimize civilian casualties, so Clinton could 'make a point'?)

[AAolds]

It does not bother me if someone has or wanted to make a Waffen SS squad for the game. 

[bj229r]

It does not bother me if someone has or wanted to make a Waffen SS squad for the game. 

Likely squeakers, at any rate

[SkyRock]

I severly doubt 1 million civilians were killed in 1 night. The worst I know of was something like 250,000. If we invaded Japan, we would have had to kill EVERY single person there. You've seen the videos of the civilians jumping off of cliffs, the crazy banzai charges. We'd have to kil 95% of the population in Japan. The Firebombing raids to scare them was needed.

Killing innocent people to scare others?  This sounds familiar.

[SkyRock]

Show me your source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Selden  March 10th, 1945

[Shifty]

Man, Pearl Harbor get's bombed, Hitler declares war on the United States, and we're  as bad as the SS. 

[Bodhi]

The people in this game are getting a bit too PC.

Perhaps I should start a squad called:

Cartoon Meanies

[Masherbrum]

we did fire bomb civillians, some estimate one million died in one night, all civillians.  15.8 square miles were burned. 1.5 million people lived in that area.  I do not believe this was necessary.

Mark, I believe you are referring to the March 9–10 Tokyo Fire Raid.   Approx. 16 sq. miles were torched with 100,000 deaths and around 250,000 homes destroyed.   25% of Tokyo was destroyed overnight.   

[crazierthanu]

Everytime I come here half of the page is covered in complaints about stupid things.
They might be stupid to some, including yourself. If that is the case, you do not need to participate. To me it wasn't stupid at all. And the email to HTC has already been sent, if you had read the earlier posts.

Yes I have been reading earlier posts, from page one.
But why do you feel the need to make tis pucblic all it takes is one email, not a 10 page thread.

[killnu]

this is rediculous.  I am glad you guys have nothing else to worry about other than a computer game squadron name. 

[Oldman731]

this is rediculous.  I am glad you guys have nothing else to worry about other than a computer game squadron name. 

Valid point.  Far better to argue whether the F6F was really 8 mph faster than people say it was.

- oldman

[SkyRock]

Mark, I believe you are referring to the March 9–10 Tokyo Fire Raid.   Approx. 16 sq. miles were torched with 100,000 deaths and around 250,000 homes destroyed.   25% of Tokyo was destroyed overnight.   

yes, that is it.  100,000 deaths I believe is an underestimate.  1.5 million people lived within those 16 sq miles.  Nonetheless, it was not a good thing to do.

[AAolds]

Its amazing how "sensitive" people are.  Appears the liberal agenda is working well.  As I see it.  Someone who is "sensitive" got offended cause someone has a name associated with the SS and now said "sensitive" person is going to act like a hillbilly and paint their grievance all over the watertower.  So what.  If you want to be associated with scum, why should we stop them?  Makes it rather easy to spot when their name clearly advertises their position.