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Old 28th September 2009, 14:46
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Re: Why did 10./JG 2 bomb a school in Catford?

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Originally Posted by tcolvin View Post
... during the emergencies on the Tucheler Heath and Bzura, where Grabmann's Me 110s of I./LG 1 were committed to ground attack ...

... Kesselring's reaction to the crisis over southern England was again to divert his fighter force to ground attack ...
Tony
Surely there is a valid distinction to be drawn between the use of fighters (with or without bomb racks) in the battlefield support role; the use of such aircraft to attack tactical targets away from the battlefield (radar stations, aerodromes); and generalised harassment attacks against the enemy's home front? Aggregating these scenarios as "ground attack" is not all that helpful.
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