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A question to the group.
Is the History channel distorting the facts? I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab all) The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination.. B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers not carpet bombers as the RAF were ? They are a few of very many I can recall. |
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"GC" wrote in message ... A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab all) The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination.. B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers not carpet bombers as the RAF were ? The USAAF had a different name for "carpet Bombing" but it was the same thing. If one considers that the weather in Europe is sufficiently bad that if the USAAF didn't BOMB THROUGH CLOUD (carpet bombing by another name) they wouldn't have bombed at all. There were many days when the USAAF did their "precision bombing" using H2S GEE GH and Oboe, the same as the RAF. American bomb aimers using these "precission blind bombing" devices could no more pick out a factory that should be bombed than could the RAF bomb aimers. If the sky was clear when the USAAF bombed, ONLY the LEAD aircraft bombardier aimed at the "precision target" and when he "toggled" his bomb load, ALL the rest of the bombardiers/toggliers dropped their bombs. If you consider the horizontal area covered by all the USAAF bombers when they "toggled" their bombs one would have to believe that the factory/military target must have taken up a huge area on the ground so that the USAAF could honestly make the claim that "they only bombed military targets"! One should also mention that the lie that the USAAF DIDN'T TARGET CIVILIANS can be put to rest, because the escorting fighter pilots were ORDERED to STRAF civilians on their way home. Bit of hypocracy involved one might say! They are a few of very many I can recall. |
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"GC" wrote in message ... A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab all) The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination.. B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers not carpet bombers as the RAF were ? They are a few of very many I can recall. I've heard the term terrorists instead of enemy being used a bit too. As in the japanese terrorist raid on pearl harbour. |
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"GC" wrote in message ... A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab all) Don't know. The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination.. Arguably. When they tried to target Sadam during the invasion of Iraq there was some discussion of this. It turns out that Churchill was reluctant to assassinate Hitler. Think about it: if it was legal for the USAF to attempt to take out Saddam, would it also be legal for the Iraqi insurgents to send a suicide bomber to London to target Blair? You have to be very careful with the law and "OK" doesn't always equate to "legal". B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers not carpet bombers as the RAF were ? Covered better than I could do by Robert. Personally, I feel very uncomfortable when the Dams Raid is celebrated: it did very little to hamper German industry but did kill an awful number of civilians; largely French slave labourers IIRC. Arguably a terrorist attack. Revisionist history should, in my view, like all forms of debate, be encouraged. My own approach, though, is to keep my voice down when the people who lived through it are still around. By modern standards, Harris's "reap the whirlwind" policy was terrorist and genocidal, but then again, my parents lived through the blitz, lost friends, saw civilian bodies being dragged out of bombed buildings, etc, and therefore have a completely different point of view. |
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GC wrote:
A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? Of course it isn't. It's just rewriting history to show the USA in a very good light, and everyone else as being not so good, if they were allies, and really bad, if they were the "enemy". I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab all) The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination.. B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers not carpet bombers as the RAF were ? They are a few of very many I can recall. -- Moving things in still pictures! |
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GC wrote:
A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab all) The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination.. B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers not carpet bombers as the RAF were ? They are a few of very many I can recall. The only one of those that is totally incorrect is Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2. |
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GC wrote in news:Xns9AAC7DCF6B15Biwwophotmailcom@
61.9.191.5: A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab all) Never heard that, is certainly an error The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination.. That's pretty much what it was. B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers not carpet bombers as the RAF were ? US raids on Berlin, RAF raids on Berlin - what's the difference? They are a few of very many I can recall. Personally I have bigger problem with the way the market their shows than the content. "The mystery of...", "the truth is finally revealed", etc. |
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Mitchell Holman wrote in
: GC wrote in news:Xns9AAC7DCF6B15Biwwophotmailcom@ 61.9.191.5: A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab all) Never heard that, is certainly an error The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination.. That's pretty much what it was. B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers not carpet bombers as the RAF were ? US raids on Berlin, RAF raids on Berlin - what's the difference? They are a few of very many I can recall. Personally I have bigger problem with the way the market their shows than the content. "The mystery of...", "the truth is finally revealed", etc. Ah thats another of my gripes as well, the bigger better best approach. My question on the B17's probably related to the fact the program totally ignored the Dams,the Tirpitz,etc all involving a touch of precision and you could hear the disdain in the commentators tone when referring to the RAF. This is not to denigrate the men who did the job, thanks to them I am able to write this ....... I figured the shooting down of Yamamoto whilst obviously a payback was done during wartime hence not an assassination but I see your point. |
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GC wrote in
: A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? IMHO: The history channel is Notorious for being inaccurate both in facts and film... |
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I have plenty of video / film archived on mountains of discs / tape /
film even! But I never let all that I have amassed stand in the way of reading a book. Watch the history channel all you want. As long as you use it correctly - as inspiration to read all you can. Waldo. On Wed, 28 May 2008 09:35:09 -0500, John Szalay wrote: GC wrote in : A question to the group. Is the History channel distorting the facts? IMHO: The history channel is Notorious for being inaccurate both in facts and film... |
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