So, we destroyed the German forces {twelve hundred Flying Fortresses bombing several thousand German soldiers!}-and also the French population of Royan. After the war, I read a dispatch by the New York Times correspondent in the area: "About 350 civilians, dazed or bruised … crawled from the ruins and said the air attacks had been 'such hell as we never believed possible.' " At our bombing altitudes-twenty-five or thirty thousand feet-we saw no people, heard no screams, saw no blood, no torn limbs. I remember only seeing the canisters light up like matches flaring one by one on the ground below. Up there in the sky, I was just "doing my job"-the explanation throughout history of warriors committing atrocities.
( Howard Zinn )
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