Carpet Bombing


    Long before the days of precision ordinance, proponents of strategic bombing were in a fix.  Bombs dropped out of an airplane were by no means accurate and so the selective destruction of a single target was well-nigh impossible.  With the advent of huge strategic bombers, however, the idea of "saturation bombing" came to fruition.

    "Saturation bombing" is just military doublespeak for "bombing the hell out of the general vicinity of the target."  Those familiar with it call it "carpet bombing," describing the way it carpets the ground with craters and death afterwards.

    Carpet bombing is when a plane drops a bunch of bombs along a straight line over one or more targets.  Some bombs will hit, some will miss.   Accuracy is minimal but it is safer for the crew.

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