How Civilian Lives Have Become Worthless In The Name of Air Power

The first civilians killed in air bombings and how we got here

Grant Piper
7 min readDec 22, 2023
(Public domain)

Today, both history and the daily news cycle are filled with stories about the bombing of civilians from the air. Civilians were killed in large numbers during World War II by global strategic bombing raids. Civilians were also the target of…

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Grant Piper

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.