[colorado tanker]

I don't buy the Air Force propaganda that air power alone won Pantelleria. By the accounts I read the Italian troops were mostly unharmed.

I attribute more importance to:

1. Imminent invasion and the fact that the Italian Army had been defeated in North Africa and a few hundred thousand Allied troops were only a few miles away.

2. Terrible morale and troops tired of fighting Germany's war.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I don't buy the Air Force propaganda that air power alone won Pantelleria. By the accounts I read the Italian troops were mostly unharmed.

Baldwin dropped a few yeah-buts on the big bomber theory in part 1 of his three-parter. We shall see if he is a believer over the next two days.