The excellent historical Twitter account WW2 Tweets from 1943, which is following the war from 72 years ago on a day-by-day basis, reminds us of the sometimes horrible price of ultimate victory in even the most just cause.
US air raid has missed target disastrously, killing 936 Belgian civilians: attempted bombing of Nazi-controlled aircraft factory In Antwerp.
— WW2 Tweets from 1943 (@RealTimeWWII) April 6, 2015
200 US planes, driven off target by Luftwaffe, scattered bombs over Belgium; 209 of the dead are schoolchildren. pic.twitter.com/dPPazXWczG
— WW2 Tweets from 1943 (@RealTimeWWII) April 6, 2015
24 tons of American bombs ripped through Belgian town of Mortsel in botched daylight raid. No warning, streets full. pic.twitter.com/24lpxkYlOi
— WW2 Tweets from 1943 (@RealTimeWWII) April 6, 2015
Surely decent people were sickened by the news. But just as surely they understood it was a terrible mistake and did not change the necessity for the war to continue until the Nazis were defeated.
