Maybe the Pathfinfders were the ones with the most courage? Probably were.
However at the start of the campaign accuracy was horrendous. It did improve throughout the war. The Butt report ( A British examination of strategic bombing) addressed this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_ReportHere are the Coles notes:
Any examination of night photographs taken during night bombing in June and July points to the following conclusions:
Of those aircraft recorded as attacking their target, only one in three got within 5 mi (8.0 km).
Over the French ports, the proportion was two in three; over Germany as a whole, the proportion was one in four; over the Ruhr it was only one in ten.
In the full moon, the proportion was two in five; in the new moon it was only one in fifteen. ...
All these figures relate only to aircraft recorded as attacking the target; the proportion of the total sorties which reached within 5 miles is less than one-third. ...
The conclusion seems to follow that only about one-third of aircraft claiming to reach their target actually reached it.[4]
The other point is we cannot bury our heads in the sand on this. The majority of the time there were military targets but there were instances of targeting civilian population centres. The fire bombing of Dresden was pure payback plain and simple. The bombing unfolded over several days with different types of munitions to ensure that the incendiaries that were dropped last had maximum effect.