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Subject: More long-range Spitfires and daylight Bomber Command raids,
with added nationalistic abuse (was: From: (Peter Stickney) Date: 9/20/03 9:12 PM Pacific A couple of points - the Warwick has always struck me as one of those "It's nice, but why?" airplanes. It really didn't do anything that other airplanes did better. By the time it came off the line, the RAF's Medium bombers were teh B-25 and B-26, (Excuse me, Peter as you well know in those days we flew whatever would fly. I never heard of a crew refusing to fly a plane because they didn't like the wing thickness. Every mission we flew was a maximum effort. Everything that could fly did fly. That's why. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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Subject: More long-range Spitfires and daylight Bomber Command raids,
with added nationalistic abuse (was: From: (Peter Stickney) Date: 9/22/03 6:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: Coastal Command used, and by fitting war-wary heavies, such as Lancasters, with lifeboats. Is it worse planning to not build airplanes you know will be useful, or to build airplanes that you know will be useless? -- Pete Stickney Hindsight is 20-20. And here we sit 60 years later viewing the war through rose colored hindsights. But if you and I were senior officers in bomber command coud we have done half as well as they did, or even just as well? And we must consider that a thousand little details and considertations, now long forgotten influenced their decisions. For the time, were they all that wrong? And since in the end, they triumphed, it means that with all theri errors they were more right than wrong. No mean feat in itself. Cut them a ltlle slack. They deserve it. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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