To: Condor51
The said (sic) part is that all the bombing of non military targets (cities) was all because of one off course plane that dropped a load on London during the dead of night.
"The Nazi cruise missile was the V-1.It had no navigation system, so aiming was simply a matter of launching it in the direction of the target.
On September 7, 1944, the first A4s, now designated the V-2, were fired at Allied targets. Soon they were raining down primarily on London and Antwerp, and continued to do so until March 27, 1945. The V-2 struck suddenly, giving its victims no time to seek shelter.
Militarily, the V-2 was a disaster for the Germans. Despite the fear it engendered among civilians, it had no effect on the Allies ability to attack Germany. It was inaccurate and had an insignificant warhead.
But although ineffective militarily, many paid a high price for V-2 production: an estimated 20,000 prisoners died in the inhumane conditions at Mittlewerk. The V-2 was one of the few weapons where more people died from producing it than died from its use as a weapon.
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/Missiles/AP29.htm
And if Churchill wasn't always drunk
As Lincoln said about U.S. Grant: "If that man is a drunk, I want all my Generals to start drinking."
Your post was like a V-1/V-2 missile: launched with plenty of malice, but with little effectiveness.
19 posted on
01/17/2006 9:46:53 AM PST by
kenavi
("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)
To: kenavi
****Your post was like a V-1/V-2 missile: launched with plenty of malice, but with little effectiveness.****
"Malice"? Nope, truth. The first bombing of London by the Luftwaffe was an accident - period. Churchill responded by bombing Berlin and it escalated from there.
And comparing Churchill to US Grant is an insult to Grant and drunks everywhere.
Churchill was a drunk, a buffoon and a criminal. And thanks to that maggot and his criminal co conspirator FDR, a couple MILLION American servicemen needlessly died and most of Europe enslaved by Communism.
20 posted on
01/17/2006 10:18:01 AM PST by
Condor51
(The above comment is time sensitive - don't BUG ME an hour from now.)
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