Excellent – thanks for that. D

The Frank Mason book. Amongst the 30 or so Hurricane books in my collection that one stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Is that “Hawker Hurricane” by Francis K Mason?

It’s about the relative rarity of the two events

Please accept these remarks as an objective comment on shepsair’s “Kittyhawk vs Copping” observation near the top of this thread. In so doing I mean no disrespect whatsoever to F/Sgt Copping and the many others who gave their lives in WWII. My Uncle included.

Many many tens of thousands (it must be well into the hundreds of thousands) of airmen gave their lives in WWII … if we remarked on the 70th anniversary of each of those deaths we’d be lost in the sheer volume.

By way of contrast, the finding of the Kittyhawk, inanimate though it may be, is/was an exceptionally rare event.

So, without commenting on the relative “humanity” of the two perspectives, it’s fairly easy to see why they have attracted such divergent levels of attention.

That F/Sgt Copping has been remembered here at all is to my mind a very fine thing. May he rest in peace.

Regards Don

Where?

That’s a serious wind tunnel … where is/was it? Don

Thank you for this … much appreciated. Don

…..it may be my life’s work! 😉

Having inhabited this forum for many years I would say that’s quite likely, and this is the old thrasher this one.

Like CD but less so, I’ve studied this for many years and formed then reformed my opinions. I think:
– Bomber Command did a pretty good job overall (yes that’s qualified).
– I have the utmost respect and admiration for the crews – they did an amazing job under terrifying circumstances.
– I have the utmost respect for the German defense personnel – they did an amazing job under terrifying circumstances.
– I think Dresden was unnecessary – I doubt it took a day off the war.
– It was by no means the first or most horrific such event. The camps aside, we and our Allies gave rather better in that regard than we received – but let’s face it was an all out war the like of which we’d all rather not see.
– I am appalled at the disrespect shown to Bomber Command until very very recently.
– I find Churchill’s distancing of himself repugnant.

Don