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Old 26th January 2005, 15:47
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Ruy,

Yes your right, a good topic to discuss over a pint of beer.

Appreciate you comments, but tend to see the similarities between post-war hype of the precision daylight bombing by the US bomber formations versus the ‘area bombing’ attacks by RAF Bomber Command and the apparent brainwashing that the US fighters single-handed destroyed the German fighter forces in the west.

I do appreciate that the US fighters did a tremendous job ( especially the Jug, my own personal favourite) over Europe. I just think Fighter Command also did.

PS : I was under the misguided impression the US Fort and liberator gunners destroyed the German airforce, considering the over-claiming that went on.

On that note, I’m off down the pub.

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