Yeah, you know what, I think the people who risked their lives every time they got in a plane to go and drop bombs on foreign countries probably didn't think that much of war either, but you know, the alternative was capitulating to the Nazis.
Lady P the Bomber Command casualty rates showed that the odds were something like 1/3 that when you went on mission you weren't coming back or at least wounded. Not sure I would like that every time I went to work.
My grandfather couldn't put up a shelf, but flew supply planes over Germany in 44 and 45. He was shot down and made an emergency landing just making it to allied territory. He only spoke to me about it once (and as far as I could tell, never to anyone else in the family - my mum was very surprised).
I know we are meant to feel all guilty about bomber command etc. but then one looks at http://bombsight.org/#8/51.456/0.736 and I'm a bit like "meh".
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Is that your way of saying you've done a big log?
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If only British rocket technology had matched German, so as to wipe
out Berlin and Dresden with V1 and V2 rockets, as the Germans were
attempting with London, this sort of unpleasantness could have been
avoided and pacifists would have been a lot happier
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WTF is wrong with these people?
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They are anti war Anna
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Yeah, you know what, I think the people who risked their lives every time they got in a plane to go and drop bombs on foreign countries probably didn't think that much of war either, but you know, the alternative was capitulating to the Nazis.
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Labour MPs and Bertrand Russell stated in all seriousness, that
Britain should disarm, and when the Waffen AS invaded, offer them
tea.
It was of course a Russell who created the Irish famine
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It was probably Corbyn tbh
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Heh @ Wellerz.
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Lady P the Bomber Command casualty rates showed that the odds were something like 1/3 that when you went on mission you weren't coming back or at least wounded. Not sure I would like that every time I went to work.
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A friend of our family who died in November did 60 sorties. Nine lives, that one. My grandfather managed 12.
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My grandfather couldn't put up a shelf, but flew supply planes over Germany in 44 and 45. He was shot down and made an emergency landing just making it to allied territory. He only spoke to me about it once (and as far as I could tell, never to anyone else in the family - my mum was very surprised).
I know we are meant to feel all guilty about bomber command etc. but then one looks at http://bombsight.org/#8/51.456/0.736 and I'm a bit like "meh".
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