Russian leaders call for international investigation into US atomic bombings of Japan

[Adrahil]

134. If you wanna limit yourself to fire bombing....

then yeah the U.S did that, though I'd point out that Britain had more bombers involved in the Dresden bombings than the U.S. But I'm talking atrocities great and small. The Soviets, for example, routinely shelled the hell outta cities before entering them. The British, as mentioned, eschewed daylight bombing missions (preferred by the US since it allowed greater precision of attacks on industrial targets), favoring instead night time missions that were much less precise and resulted in greater civilian casualties. Even at Dresden, the USAAF was targeting industrial centers, and not population centers. The British were also targeting industrial targets, but were far less precise in their attacks. And yeah, the use of incendiaries made the problem much worse. But it DID destroy Dresden's industrial capacity, which was the goal.

The Soviet bombardment of cities could easily be described as punitive in nature, so they aren't off the hook either.

It was a nasty, nasty war.