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To: US Navy Vet
"The 8th Air Force planners felt that if they could strike hard enough at Schweinfurt, the results might cripple the German war industry. "

And as fate would have it the krauts had thought ahead, staying probably twenty year's worth of bearing production in underground shelters.

All the casualties were in vain, one of the tragic stories of the greater human tragedy of WWII.

38 posted on 02/10/2014 3:08:08 PM PST by OKSooner ("As the riders went on by him, he heard one call his name...")
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To: OKSooner

I reccomend “Big Week” by Yenne.

I enjoyed the read and learned may things I didn’t know.


39 posted on 02/10/2014 3:20:00 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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