War The Nature Of The Beast: Death Rains Burns Bitter Cruel Poem by Terence George Craddock

civilizations scientists
invent weapons
weapons of terror weapons

designed

to inflict
terror brutal death
on battlefields

then on cities used

Nazi fire storm blitz
was deliberate
bombing of London;

English cities
incendiaries used
create fire storms

years pass
blood swift tides
of war turn

revenge termination
of WW2 eighty
to ninety percent

of target selected
German cities
were bombed to ruins;

Bomber Command
selects Cologne
Germany as target

for the first
1,000-bomber raid
by the Royal Air Force

Codenamed Operation
Millennium
an RAF massive raid

introduces area bombing
fire carpets night
May 30 1942;

Operation Gomorrah:
Hamburg July 24
to August 3 1943

round-the-clock bombing
aiming for terror
total destruction

Battle Berlin:
German capital
November 1943 to March 1944

February 3 1945
is the largest USAAF raid
1,500 bombers;

firestorm raids
are glow in dark mass
hell on earth devastation;

Dresden:
joint British American
aerial bombing four raids

13 and 15 February
1945 772 RAF
heavy bombers plus

527 United States
Army Air Forces
(USAAF) dropped

over 3,900 tons
high-explosive bombs
incendiary devices;

bombing resulting
firestorm destroyed
over 1,600 acres

(6.5 km2) in
the city centre 25,000
people were killed

3 more USAAF raids
will occur on
2 March 1945 aimed at

city's railway
marshalling yard
17 April industrial areas;

2014 estimates
are 353,000 German
civilians are killed

in strategic bombings
of target railways
harbours cities

reduced from early
410,000 German
civilians bombs killed

but men women
children mothers
babies were burned;


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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