To: 21twelve
Oh - later on the German war summary states that “Some allied warplanes were reported to have dropped some bombs scattered about with no targets hit.”
The New York Times banner says “Nazi Ball Bearing Plant Smashed, estimated 600 casualties and $20,000,000 in equipment destroyed. LOL!
43 posted on
04/03/2015 5:45:56 PM PDT by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: 21twelve
Okay - now that I read the entire article - the 600 casualties and $20,000,000 lost was OUR men and planes (60 heavy bombers). But we did destroy the plant and took out 107 Nazi planes.
Amazing the sacrifices that were made back then. (My uncle was a bombardier over Germany - made it back home. Never talked about it.)
45 posted on
04/03/2015 5:51:11 PM PDT by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: 21twelve
And I’m certain that both reports were pure fiction LOL! Especially if it was the NYT...
52 posted on
04/03/2015 6:03:27 PM PDT by
Squawk 8888
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