class-struggle-anarchism:

After it was founded in 1918, the brave RAF got straight to work, indiscriminately bombing and machine gunning civilian protesters from the air in India

The fight against fascism in WW2 was a relatively brief period in the RAF’s 100 year history, and they even managed a few war crimes during that. The RAF’s day job, the thing they’ve spent the best part of the last 100 years doing with no end in sight, is dropping bombs on the middle east in the service of British imperialism.

“The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means within 45 minutes a full-sized village can be practically wiped out, and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured, by four or five machines which offer them no real target, no opportunity for glory as warriors, no effective means of escape”.

 – Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris

‘A few war crimes’ doesn’t really do the RAF during WW2 justice either. During WW2 ‘Bomber Harris’ department did one thing only: figuring out how best to create a ‘fire storm’ capable of destroying entire cities in a very short time. Their department no interest in targetting soldiers, military bases or even factories. Their targets were city centres and the goal was maximum civilian casualties. Fire storms burned so hot and intense that they sucked all the oxigen out the air for miles and miles around, literally sucking the air out of the lungs of people far from the flames. The bombing of Hamburg resulted in 46.000 dead. The bombing of Dresden 25.000 dead.

And mass murderer Harris has a fucking statue in Britain now.