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Although neither Doolittle nor Spaatz realized it, while the strategic bombing campaign had not been decisive in itself, the way it was used to draw the German air force into a losing battle of attrition was decisive. The attrition of the Luftwaffe became the prime ingredient in winning the air war in Europe.

'The bomber will always get through,' rant the pre-war wisdom. But there were at least two flaws in that thinking. The first was the idea that civilians could not hold up under strategic bombing. The second premise was equally specious: strategic bombing would destroy a country's ability to wage war by eliminating its industry.