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February 29th 08, 10:55 PM
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Way off topic, but it has do to with the French
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ... The Blitzkrieg days were long gone by the time the Fw 190 appeared on the scene. They'd have probably just used them for strafing and busting up formations, wouldn't they? They couldn't have hung long in a turn fight with Spitfires. As I understood it, they sort of took the bull-in-a-china-cabinet approach to things. My grandfather's bombardier recalled slugging it out with one attacking them head-on, watching pieces off the FW's cowl fly off and seeing an exposed piston working as the plexiglass of the B-17 exploded all around him. (They crashed in Sampigny, France.) -c 
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