Before Pearl Harbor, Percy Knauth believed with Vera Brittain that the bombing of noncombatants should be made an international war crime. What he saw in the war convinced him that he had been naive. “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.”
