It was Berlin and Doolittle who protested up:
Doolittle argued that such an attack on the cityc enter of Berlin would essentially mean that the Eighth
Air Force would use the Royal Air Force doctrine ofa rea bombing, which would result in massive civilianc asualties and potential accusations of terror tactics. As
Richard Davis quotes, Doolittle appealed to Spaatz’shumanity, asserting that “We will, in what may be one of our last and best remembered operations regardless
of its effectiveness, violate the basic American principle of precision bombing of targets of strictly military significance for which our tactics were designed and our
crews trained and indoctrinated”
It also happened on a larger scale with Tokyo:
The crew members were brought in and asked if they objected to firebombing the cities of Japan. A number of people raised their hands. But the order came down: “Well, that’s your opinion, but the orders are you’re going to go on the mission.”
We fired LeMay's predecessor attacking Japan because he refused to go in with the low level flights, in the Bomber Mafia book the idea of precision high level bombing was something the officers in the USAAF before WW2 took as gospel.
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