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To: Homer_J_Simpson

3 posted on 07/08/2014 4:36:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

Bill Herbert of CBC describing the bombing of Caen. ”Pilotless planes could never do a job like this, I’ll bet.” (1:10)

CAN-Herbert on the Bombing of Caen

4 posted on 07/08/2014 4:38:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Late addition:

Prime Minister to Minister of Air Production 8 July 44

Thank you for your minute of June 5 [about centralizing jet-propulsion research under one man, with the best possible advice available from within and without the Government service].

In research and development there is great risk in too much centralization, and the present move seems likely to run this risk. But if you are anxious to take it I leave the matter in your hands.

As you know, I have always taken a great personal interest in this question of jet-propulsion, and I should be obliged if you would let me have a note on the progress made at, say, two-monthly intervals.

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

19 posted on 07/10/2014 3:57:06 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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