Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine

by Donald L. Miller

“The first time your bombers came over Hanover,29 escorted by fighters, I began to be worried. When they came with fighter escorts over Berlin—I knew the jig was up.”

“hypocrisy…. No one in Germany has ever heard of a concentration camp,172 no one had ever been a Nazi,” and “no Germans, unless they are underground resistance workers or concentration camp inmates, find that Hitler did anything wrong except lose.”

“there is something very distasteful in accepting war as an instrument and at the same time wanting to dodge responsibility for its more obviously barbarous features.”

“We did not realize that war knows nothing of humanitarianism…. We did not realize that the bombing of military and so-called civilian targets together is the only way in which air warfare can be waged effectively—that it is impossible to separate the two.”