Subject: Area bombing is not a dirty word.
From: "Bill Phillips"
Date: 1/16/04 12:12 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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In my view fuel as a poor third reason.


According to interviews with Albert Kesselring, fuel shortages severely
limited
training and was, according to him, the leading cause of eventually losing
air
superiority over their own country.


One thing that the German high command is excellent at is finding excuses
for their failures.

One of the reasons WW2 happened was that they successfully convinced the
German people that they had been on the verge of winning WW1 when the
politicians "stabbed then in the back."

So what do you expect him to say:

A) Our failure to train enough pilots early in the war meant that we got
into a vicious circle of: pilot shortage leading to, shorter training
leading to, higher casualties leading to, pilot shortage.

B) We were winning when we ran out of fuel, due to circumstances beyond my
control.



When France surrendered and collaborated it sure looked that way. Children in
France today are taught in schools that France defeated Germany with the "help"
of the allies. How French.


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