Peace Hath Her Victories
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:30 am
(Generalia)
Indeed, to compare anything achieved in aerial bombing by the Germans with what later befell them is a travesty, English and American bombers dropped 315 tons of bombs on Germany for every one Germans dropped on England.
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The piecemeal, unspectacular death of hundreds of thousands of Americans in accidents of all kinds during the war years of 1941-1945 produced hardly any notice. When the America Fore Insurance and Indemnity Group, an association of insurance companies, in a safety appeal at the end of 1944, announced that 97,900 Americans had been killed and 10,000,000 injured in industrial and other home-front accidents in 1943, and that 50,000,000 work days had been lost in production, it drew barely a glance. According to a New York Times calculation two months after the end of the war, American loss of life in military operations during the entire war totaled 262,000 while accidents in the United States took the lives of 355,000; the logic of this suggested that the American civilian scene, even without bombing, was somewhat more dangerous than the armed services, averaging in all combat losses.
James Martin : The Bombing and Negotiated Peace Questions — In 1944
