Map: RAF Dresden Map, 1943

"Tenement buildings in the Inner Residential Zone may be burnt out under heavy I.B. attack. The effect of H.E. is not hard to imagine."

"The suburbia of Germany. These rows of small houses with their own gardens make a poor target for either I.B. or H.E. attack. They represent the more recent building on the outskirts of cities but there is not as much of this area as there is in England."

Read the comment under the photo Figure 3, which shows the houses in Zone 2a on the map. You need to know that I.B. stands for incendiary bomb (fire bomb) and H.E. for heavy explosive bomb.

Do you think that the comment about the effect of these bombs is intended to get the bombers to avoid these areas because of what would happen, or to try to hit them ?

You might also like to read the comment under Figure 6 on Zone 3 to inform your thinking.