We got a direct request from Satlin to bomb Diesden. At that point, we were still trying to be "good Allies". I personally think Stalin knew Dresden had no militay value but he just wanted to know as many Germand residents and he knew it would kill Germans he knew that we would do it. would do it and did do it.
However, this started the discussion among the western Allies about bombing tatgets and if the bombing them and no miltary value there.PatchDog3