"waiting to strafe anything that moved"

[microrobert]

"waiting to strafe anything that moved"





I've previously posted here on how All American Hero and first man to travel faster than sound; Chuck
Yeager, admitted he was ordered to strafe anything that moved, including civilians, during WW2.

Thunderbolt pilot, 1st Lieutenant, later a Brigadier General of the US Air
Force, Donald B. Smith also admitted they strafed "anything that moved"



The Milwaukee Journal - Dec 26, 1944, p.2

[Supreme American]

I've heard of this before, and I've read that it was done after the Dresden firebombings as well. Survivors would come out only to face airborne strafing. Boy did we as a race really sink across the board in that war, and it's still kicking us in the ass.

[microrobert]

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1945. In-plane and gun camera footage of US fighters strafing German farmers' horse driven vehicles during the last days of war in Europe.

[Geminus]

I've heard about this from both my grandmother and grandfather. So some pilots really shot at everything that moved in the late stages of the war.