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I WAS a wartime Lancaster bomber pilot who took part in 38 raids over Germany during that conflict and can state categorically that we were never required to bomb purely civilian areas (Mail).

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We targeted factories and railway marshalling yards and other areas geared to the German war effort. It's an insult to the many men who were killed helping to save this country from Nazi Germany to state otherwise.

F. JAMES, DFC, Bakewell, Derbys. I CAN'T believe that the RAF didn't intentionally target German civilians. The USAF came by day and the RAF mostly at night. We children went to bed in tracksuits, our shoes and coat nearby, to be ready in seconds when the Vorwarnung sounded to go racing off into the bunker. One night, as we sat on wooden benches in the shelter, waiting for the bombs to drop -- nothing happened. The Endwarnungssirene sounded, the signal for us to leave the bunker, and we were told my home town Braunschweig (Brunswick) wasn't the target that night, but Berlin.

We fell into our beds dog-tired, only to be woken up by the droning sound of planes.

The first time this happened, we weren't unduely worried as everyone assumed the RAF had dropped all their bombs over Berlin, but this wasn't the case.

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They had enough bombs left to attack Brunswick, knowing that most of the population were in bed. Among casualties that night were two pupils from my primary school.

This didn't happen every time the RAF bombed Berlin, but there were several occasions when it did. As Winston Churchill wrote: 'History is written by the victors.' Mrs I. K. HARBOUR, Brecon, South Wales. I'VE EXAMINED the background to Bomber Command's 'area bombing' campaign. The August 1941 document to which Leo McKinstry refers (Mail) is part of an analysis studying the impact of the Luftwaffe bombing campaign on Britain to May 1941. Like Bomber Command, the Luftwaffe was committed to bombing specific sites, but in practice the bombers adopted an 'area attack' policy. From September 1940, specialist bomber units marked the target area with high explosives and incendiaries. Naval mines were dropped by parachute to level whole blocks of homes in order to feed the fires.

British and German bombs killed civilians because legitimate targets and homes were cheek by jowl. But some Bomber Command crews were undoubtedly avenging loved ones killed in the Blitz.

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However, studies have shown that a city attack could disrupt production over a wide area partly by destroying the myriad little workshops scattered through every city.

TED HOOTON, Langley, Berks.