On 11/07/2020 13:46, newshound wrote:
On 11/07/2020 13:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


ISTR Douglas Bader having his convergence close in. He claimed it was
the only way to shoot down the target. He was opposed to cannon for
the same reason, believing it encouraged pilots to fire from too far
away.

Bader was a bit of a **** really. One cannon shell near the pilot will
disable the aircraft.

Ah yes, but he was *our* ****.

The Brits were pioneers with booby traps and IEDs, even though when we
are on the receiving end now they are considered somehow unsporting.
Read Curtiss LeMay's autobiography and you wonder why all the fuss about
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Yanks were doing just as much damage before
then with ruthless incendiary raids on residential areas (justified by
the argument that the Japs made a lot of stuff in cottage industry type
workshops).

History is mostly written by the victors, of course.

And then rewritten by the Left


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