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January 15th 04, 06:23 AM
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David Lesher wrote in message ...
(Eugene Griessel) writes: IIRC they tried radio-controlled bombers (obsolete marks of B17 rings a bell) on the ski-sites? This was used against the V2 underground factory, as I recall. "Operation Aphrodite" killed JFK's older brother, Joe Kennedy Jr. IIRC Joe was killed in a remote controlled B24 Liberator during August 1944, flying from Wingfarthing-Fersfield in Norfolk and the intended target was a suspected rocket launching site in Heligoland. Using such against a ski ramp would be like using a M60 to kill a fly.... Ski ramp? The ski sites took their name from the large concrete ski-shaped bunkers used to store V1s. Those were the intended targets. 
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