"newshound" wrote in message
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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

The difference is that it was just the one nuke per city with nukes.

(justified by the argument that the Japs made a lot of stuff in cottage
industry type workshops).