The bombings was just pure murder, and the bombing on Dredsen was just bad very bad,
As already pointed out, this "pure murder" was a tactic of war developed by the Germans. As Harris put it:
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a dozen other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
Britain and France were eager at the start of the war to refrain from Bombing. They held back when Germany bombed Polish cities. They held back when Germany bombed Norwegian cities. Only when Germany bombed western European cities did they begin to bomb Germany at all, and then they restricted it to military targets. Not until after about 20,000 Britions had been killed in terror raids on British cities did Britain begin to do the same to Germany.
I've little sympathy for those who began a particular way of war, and then cry foul when their enemies take it up with more success.
at least the yanks had some guts doing day raids.
About 55,000 RAF Bomber Command crewmen died on operations. That's about 45% of all Bomber Command aircrew. A crewman had more chance of being killed that surviving without injury.
In total, 45% were killed, 8% taken prisoner, 7% wounded and 40% survived unharmed. And every one volunteered for aircrew duty.
They were certainly not lacking in guts.