Hi All,
Just one interesting question if America had not joined the bombing campaign would we have continued our campaign ? I would imagine we would have run out of bombs as I assume if America hadn’t entered they would not supply England with Bombs (Please correct if wrong) as we couldn’t have produced them ourselves under a sustained Blitz if we had to go it alone and referring back to my post about the UK’s City’s and Towns along with the other European targets being bombed also the Spanish Civil War there has been outcry for these acts on the scale their has been over the years about England’s campaign. The point about the British campaign was initially a response the German Campaign (Please correct me if I am wrong) don’t forget the Blitz was a terrible experience for those in England and the Europeans mainland that went through a similar fate.
My point is that what was England supposed to do just sit back and say well at least their not invading and everyone else can get on with it themselves ? No the decision for the bombing campaign was made after every option was weighed up and the risks worked out that plus until 1944 we could only fight in other country’s
so the only realistic option to take the war to the German mainland was an air campaign no matter what the risks and I dare say the pitfalls if it all went pear shaped only Bomber Harris can know the true difficulty of his decision it must of weighed on his mind till he passed on but he had to be prepared to shoulder the responsibility of his desicsion.

Geoff.

Hi All,
Sintra thanks for the info but the same question applies being they are designed to evade radar and the enemy would the use of an afterburner give the game away or is stealth technology only meant to work as an Electronic/Digital signature cover ?

Geoff.:D

Hi All,
I like these

Geoff.:D

it’s C-5 :confused:

Not according to this site http://http://www.eaa.org/apps/galleries/gallery.aspx?ID=233
Moving on Etienne here’s a couple more for you :eagerness:

Geoff.:D

Hi All,
My problem with it all is that all these so called apologists tend to quite conveniently forget all about the City bombed over here Glasgow ?(Correct If I am wrong please) Manchester/Liverpool/Hull/Birmingham/Coventry/London and others also not forgetting other major city’s in Europe plus all the terror the ground campaign wrought in destroying city’s as well but that’s another thread.

Geoff.

Hi All,
I’ll put the cat amongst the pigeons with this while Yuri Gagarin is the official first man in space (With no disrespect intended) was he ? there are those that believe Major-General Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin, may have been as it is alleged that he landed on Chinese soil when he returned to earth although no official conformation the following is a brief extract from his Wikipedia page:-

Two days before Gagarin’s launch on April 12, 1961, Dennis Ogden wrote in the Western Communist newspaper the Daily Worker that the Soviet Union’s announcement that Ilyushin had been involved in a serious car crash was really a cover story for an April 7, 1961 orbital spaceflight gone wrong.[2] A similar story was told by French broadcaster Eduard Bobrovsky, but his version had the launch occurring in March, resulting in Ilyushin slipping into a coma.[2] NORAD tracking stations, however, had no record of any such launch.[2] Later that year, U.S. News & World Report transmitted the rumor by claiming that Gagarin had never flown and was merely a stand-in for the sickened Ilyushin.[citation needed] The 1999 film The Cosmonaut Cover-Up takes the position that Ilyushin was the first man in space and discusses the alleged cover-up in detail.[4] The 2009 film Fallen Idol: The Yuri Gagarin Conspiracy also takes the same position and further goes to talk about the US efforts to continue the lie, even citing national security to not release information under the Freedom of Information Act. The data sought was the Tern Island[disambiguation needed] CIA tracking station that supposedly covered and recorded Iluyshin’s failed mission.

According to Mark Wade, editor of the space history Web site Encyclopedia Astronautica, “The entire early history of the Soviet manned space program has been declassified and we have piles of memoirs of cosmonauts, engineers, etc., who participated. We know who was in the original cosmonaut team, who never flew, was dismissed, or was killed in ground tests. Ilyushin is not one of them.”[5]

Make’s you think ?

Geoff.:D

Hi All,
Ronnie I thought you liked these prop thingamabobs:highly_amused:

Geoff.:D