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July 10th 03, 02:01 PM
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An unfortunate moment from that time was Lindberg's trip to Germany and then
his telling Roosevelt that we had better stay out of it... He was technically accurate in his estimation that we would get our butts kicked by the Luftwaffe in a straight on confrontation, plane versus plane.. Whereas, he should have told Roosevelt that we needed to get off our duff and build better warplanes 'now'... Unfortunately, he was a great pilot, not a great military strategist... It took getting our noses rubbed in it at Pearl Harbor to truly energize those in power to build up our military machine... Roosevelt held it against Lindberg for steering him wrong, and probably with good reason ... Denny "a.d.danilecki" wrote in message om... "G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... Rick Durden wrote: When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939 the Polish Air Force fought courageously with outdated airplanes, all of which could easily out-turn the Bf-109. 
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