Subject: The greatest missions were tactical, not strategic
From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 9/2/2004 12:07 PM Pacific Standard Time
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ArtKramr wrote:

But it was tactical bmbing that cut the Germans off from Normandy. They had
plenty, they just couldn't move it forward as we sliced up the roads and
rail
lines and took out the bridges.


True, and Ira Eaker, Jimmy Doolittle and other prominent Army Air Force
leaders
undertook the mission with great protests and completely under duress from
Eisenhower.


BUFDRVR


Geeez. And they never asked me whether I wanted to go or not. (sheeesh)


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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