Still would have been nice if Harris ended his days in 1945, dancing his way to hell at the end of a short rope. I live in Hamburg, My wife is from Hamburg. Our Grandmother had to run 2 miles to the Alster on the night of the firestorm to avoid being burnt alive. Doing more research this past week, I found that the bombers on that raid flew right over where my house is, A lanc crashed not a kilometer from here( and boy do I hope the crew managed to bail and float down into the inferno,instead of quickly riding it in) My house is on a top edge of the Firestorm area. There was a picture of my street in the Hamburger Abendblatt yesterday, nothing but burnt out shells. When they were doing plumbing work a couple of years ago, they had an 8foot deep hole dug in front walk in front of the apartments I live. The hole was filled with blackened old bricks the whole way down. On my way to work everyday I pass where the firestorm started. 35,000 people died in the area I live in one night, I wonder how many in my basement, and if they were the lucky ones who were carbon monoxcided. 35,000 thats 7+x the WTC. Old people, women and children mostly. They survivors spoke of whirlwinds of flame, hurricane force winds sucking people into buildings. blizzards of sparks, a sound like an organ of hell. Infernal heat everywhere, asphalt roads melting and people being trapped in the molten asphalt. Around 40,000 people died totl during the bombing raids that week. Less then 1% were from the 8th AF. I don't fly lancs in AH anymore.
