Bombing of Dresden

In response to “The Past That Won’t Go Away,” Feb. 13:

Tyler Marshall reviewed the massive bombing of Dresden on Feb. 13-14, 1945. As a prisoner of war I was in a field in the vicinity. It was the most magnificent sight. The air was filled with planes all day and the end of the war was that much closer.

A few weeks later I was on a cleanup crew in Chemnitz, a rather large industrial city which had not been bombed before. In the rubble a citizen came up to me and shook her fist in my face and said, “If you had surrendered after the Coventry, this would not have happened to Chemnitz.”

German bombers flew to bring war and destruction. American and British bombers flew to bring peace.

FRANK L. WRIGHT

West Los Angeles