"DeepSea" wrote in message
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Ed Rasimus wrote in
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The discussion was not about "what dive bombing is all about", the
technicalities or merits of dive bombing, nor was the talk. Simply that
in his experience, he mostly saw dive bombing. This was important to my
point of view because his talk was my only exposure to primary source
material on the subject (at least until Brian posted the weblink).



The topic as been 'done to death' and You'll (Dep Sea) are probably
regretting the assertion that 'England was mostly sunjected to attack using
Dive-bombers .
I can somewhat understand your inference as (apparently) you've only ever
experienced a talk from _one_ person that had endured aerial attack ( in
England?).
I'm a mid-War 'baby'. [My mother and her neighbours _might_ have been the
female ordnance workers clustered around the weapon shown on the Liverpool
Blitz website ... as they all were 'conscripted/drafted' for war work into
the Royal Ordnance Factory which was at Kirkby!]. I know and have been
exposed to primary source material off hundreds of relatives / neighbours
that survived the Blitz.

My playgrounds were the bombed sites (called Debris, pronounced deb-ree)
that surounded our homes. I can still 'hear' the cries of neighbours,
mothers and scuffers yelling 'Gerr'off that deb-ree!' to us kids.

Later whilst serving in the RAF, I was exposed to primary source material
from Pilots that had survived 'The War'. I was privileged to serve
with -that's probably best described as 'at the same station, during the
same time' - with 'Ginger Lacey'.

http://www.battle-of-britain.com/BoB.../RAF/lacey.htm

One of the nicest man that one could encounter. (then) Flt. Lt. Lacey was
serving his 'last tour' as a (Master) Fighter Controller at RAF Buchan.
During the long midnight watches -as we anticipated the outbreak of WW1II -
we youngsters would listen enthralled to Flt. Lt. Lacey's recounting his
engagements. { I must stress that he was incredibly modest and
unassuming -it was we, youngsters, who pushed him into telling 'War-ies'. I
had a feeling of watching an updated 'Boyhood of Raleigh' scene with
'Ginger' playing the part of the oldster and the audience, the youngsters,
cluttered about the feet: albeit everybody was wearing air-force blue, and
the light was emanating off the Tote Board, Display Table and flickering
consoles.

This is the reason I felt that the original statement 'most ... dive
bombing' needed clarification.

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Brian