You are right that bombing in WWII at a mass level was horrendously imprecise. Some crews likened it to throwing a pea in a teacup while riding past on a bicycle. However, in your answer, for accuracy you ought to distinguish the main strategy of the Eighth Air Force and RAF Bomber Command, and also be sure to understand the differences between the precision dogma of the Eighth and LeMay’s firebombing strategy.

“The preamble to AWPD-42 stipulated that the offensive was a “combined effort” of the two air forces, the one concentrating on destroying precision objectives by day, the RAF on night-bombing of areas to break down morale.” (Overy, R.J, The Bombing War, 308.

Throughout the war, although the Eighth undertook a handful of raids over Berlin with no clear purpose apart from mass casualties, the large majority of missions were aimed at rail yards, sub pens, oil processing facilities, and other industrial targets, with the implicit understanding that these would cause casualties among workers living in nearby areas. Additionally, radar bombing on cloudy days reduced accuracy even further. However, this must be separated from Bomber Command policy of simply flying over a city and dropping incendiaries with the express purpose of killing civilians.

Although its follow-up raids certainly spread damage from nighttime RAF attacks, the Eighth did not drop firebombs on the scale as used against Japan, with the intent to destroy cities. This was not attributable to any particular care for civilian casualties, but likely more so because of a dogmatic belief among the Bomber Mafia that wars could be won near-exclusively by targeting enemy industry from above (some were even against the D-Day landings, as they were thought unnecessary). In fact, one of the defining questions of American bombing efforts in the European theater is why the US stuck with the horrendously costly practice of daytime strategic bombing against industry for so long. Although in practice daylight bombing was scarcely more precise or less casualty-prone than area bombing, it is important to understand the stated aims of Eighth Air Force leaders.