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Was reading Wilmot’s The Struggle for Europe (my jam is reading WW2 histories that were written shortly after WW2 from a context perspective, long story). He repeatedly mentions that a major reason for the Italian campaign was strategic-bomber bases for targeting Germany, but it seems like the 15th didn’t make nearly as much of a contribution to the SBC as the 8th did, despite their bases being a lot closer etc? What were the reasons for this? Thanks in advance!

I guess we could go with Medieval but probably other timeframes were comparable?

Obviously a failure of imagination on my part, but I have no problem understanding that if I was in street clothes and a guy comes at me with a butcher knife, I’m in serious trouble. But if I’m wearing some kind of armor and a shield, and somebody is trying to kill me with the equivalent of a three-foot-long butter knife (because it probably wasn’t that sharp in the first place, and he’s been banging on other armored people with it), it doesn’t seem all that bad?