"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: #1 Piston Fighter was British
From: "Paul J. Adam"
Date: 7/10/03 1:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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In message , ArtKramr
writes
Not bizarre at all. Carrying a bombload is the same as "shooitng back"
The
ability to harm the enemy is the active criteria.

Carrying a deadly payload counts: do _you_ want to tell the paratroopers
that you don't consider them to be dangerous?


--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam

I guess if thos troops got there on bicycles we would have to call the
bikes
combat vehlcles.

Well know we call APC's combat vehicles

And if a Piper Cub crashes and kills an enemy soldier we have
to designate the Piper Cub as a ground attack aircraft.(sheesh)


I'd suggest those pilots in WW2 who flew light aircraft in the
over enemy lines as artillery spotters were very definitely in combat.

You gotta wonder what he thinks of the guys who flew Dustoff missions
into and out of hot LZ's on a routine basis; I guess all of those
hours my brother logged, not to mention one shootdown, don't qualify
as "combat duty" in Artian World. And to think CWO Michael Novosel
(himself a former B-29 pilot from WWII who later reentered the service
to fly helos) got the MoH while flying just that kind of (unarmed)
mission for the 82nd Med Det in the RVN (and the MoH is reserved for
actions that take place *in combat*...Maybe Art thinks he can go take
it back from him?

Brooks


Keith