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June 24th 04, 04:46 PM
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote: Neither "missile" would be capable of breaching TG. For gosh sakes, people, TG is a friggin' GRAVITY dam--its a large concrete monolith! Folks keep comparing this to the Ruhr dams--but weren't they *arch* dams? Nope. They were arch-*shaped*, but the Moehne and Eder were gravity dams. Oddly enough, the RAF officers who thought the mission wouldn't work in 1943 were saying pretty much the same things you're saying now. "The bombs aren't big enough, you can't put them in place, the risk isn't worth it..." -- cirby at cfl.rr.com Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. 
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