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[edit] Pforzheim
I know you have been working on the articles about Pforzheim, but as awful as the attack was it was just one of many. For example see RAF Bomber Command#Strategic bombing 1942-45 In the month of March 1945 there were larger raids on:
- March 1st, Mannheim by 478 aircraft; 2nd, Cologne 858 aircraft; 5-6th, Chemnitz 760; 7-8th, Dessau 526; 11th Essen 1,079 (dropped 4,661 tonnes); 12th Dortmund 1,079 (dropped 4,851 tonnes); 13th Wuppertal and Barmen 354;31st Hamburg 469. There were at least as many raids of between 250-350 bombers. So given those numbers Pforzheim is not a particlularly special case.
Even the claim that the distruction was larger than most is questionable.
- From 10-13 the RAF dispatched 2,541 sorties by daylight to Ruhr and a total of approximately 10,650 tons of bombs had been dropped through cloud with sufficient accuracy to cripple 2 cities and 1 town.
- On the 23-24th, 195 Lancasters and 23 Mosquitos from 5 and 8 Groups carried out the last raid on the town of Wesel. No aircraft were lost. It is claimed that Wesel was the most intensively bombed town, for its size, in Germany: 97% of the buildings in the main town area were destroyed. The population, which had numbered nearly 25,000 on the outbreak of war, was only 1,900 in May 1945.
And all the figures quoted here are from just one month and do not include USAAF figures which were nearly as large. As the article where I am objecting to you placing a mention of Pforzheim is about the CO of RAF Bomber Command I do not think that including lists of towns which his command bombed during the war is the way to go unless they had a specific effect on his career which Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden did. --Philip Baird Shearer 17:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)