Posted on 05/21/2015 10:34:13 PM PDT by lavaroise
This month, Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force News magazine, celebrates the daring role of Operation Jericho by its valiant air force personnel during WWII.
Mosquito aircrafts were dispatched despite bad weather in order to breach walls of a Nazi prison allowing French resistance to escape. Compromised British Intelligence officers were amongst the prisoners urging accordingly. On their return home, several pilots were shot down by the Luftwaffe, while many of those escaping were killed. These are the histories of bravery clashing with ideologies the like of Hitler.
Nowadays liberation theologies competing for recognition against historical record for political clout are just as ideological. The song 99 Red Balloons eulogizing a Cold War plan to launch from East Germany red balloons carrying nukes to be detonated over Europe are such bizarre flamboyant retorts against present Western claims of past bravery for freedom.
We have met the enemy, and he is us. - Pogo
"I turn green and yellow with envy when I see a Mosquito," he ranted. "The British knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building!"
What a funny airplane, the SU25 or A10 of its time, though.
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