War - Ww2 - Bombing Germany Poem by Paul Warren

Flying through a dark cloudy night
The bomber guided by a radio beam flight
They gathered for the thousand plane raid
An Australian crew on a Second World War escapade

The target had been given for the crew at the briefing
The Lancaster bomber would find quite a meeting
From the German defences of anti-aircraft gun locations
And fighter planes Me 109s and Focke-Wolfe 190 expectations

The idea was to carpet bomb the German cities to submission
With the British at night and Americans daily without intermission
Getting through the defences was the first task for the crew
And working as a team was the only way they would get through

The pathfinders ahead had lit the way for the bombing fleet
There mosquito fighter bombers dropping flares identification complete
And the thousand plane raid saturated the area with bombs
Obliterating people and building until everything was gone

The losses of the bomber crews were comparable in numbers
To the Western Front battles of the Great War losses
And there was talk of the moral sense of bombing like this
When the population was the target with the deaths unable to be dismissed.

© Paul Warren Poetry