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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Prime Minister to Secretary of State for Air 28 Mar 45

You have no grounds to claim that the Royal Air Force frustrated the attacks by the “V” weapons. The R.A.F. took their part, but in my opinion their effort ranks definitely below that of the anti-aircraft artillery and still farther below the achievements of the Army in cleaning out all the establishments in the Pas de Calais, which so soon would have opened a new devastating attack upon us in spite of all the Air Force could do.

As to V2, nothing has been done or can be done by the R.A.F.

I thought it a pity to mar the glories of the Battle of Britain by trying to claim overweening credit in this business of the “V” weapons. It only leads to scoffing comments by very large bodies of people.

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

4 posted on 03/28/2015 4:18:25 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Today’s sound bite is Stuart McPherson reporting from “across the Rhine” (1:16).

Stuart McPherson, BBC

5 posted on 03/28/2015 4:18:59 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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