Subject: More long-range Spitfires and daylight Bomber Command raids,
with added nationalistic abuse (was:
From: (Peter Stickney)
Date: 9/22/03 6:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Coastal Command used, and by fitting
war-wary heavies, such as Lancasters, with lifeboats. Is it worse
planning to not build airplanes you know will be useful, or to build
airplanes that you know will be useless?

--
Pete Stickney


Hindsight is 20-20. And here we sit 60 years later viewing the war through rose
colored hindsights. But if you and I were senior officers in bomber command
coud we have done half as well as they did, or even just as well? And we must
consider that a thousand little details and considertations, now long
forgotten influenced their decisions. For the time, were they all that wrong?
And since in the end, they triumphed, it means that with all theri errors they
were more right than wrong. No mean feat in itself. Cut them a ltlle slack.
They deserve it.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer