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Hitler's last gasp! Kamikaze Doodlebug with room for a PILOT that was the Nazis' [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 22, 2017 | NIck Enoch

Posted on 06/22/2017 6:32:10 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: Henchster

The environmental cost meanwhile, enormous. Poking holes in the ozone....and THAT is what really gave Hitler a bad name. Truly the first MODERN eco terrorist. Shame on him...


21 posted on 06/22/2017 8:19:04 AM PDT by Professional
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To: C19fan

The Nazis had lots of interesting stuff.
They determined that trading a Focke Wulf 190 for a bomber and its crew was acceptable and organized ‘ramming squadrons.’ The rammers’ aircraft were heavily armored; they were supposed ram tails and wings, bringing down the bomber and having a chance of the Focke Wulf surviving. If the fighter was disabled, the pilot was supposed to bail out.
But, for some reason, this practice never became very popular.


22 posted on 06/22/2017 9:56:00 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: henkster

Hitler was “genius”,who conned tens of millions into believing they could just take what they wanted from the rest of the world.Kinda like today’s Democrats...


23 posted on 06/22/2017 10:49:44 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: samtheman

Is it really a V-1 or a USN JB-2 LOON?


24 posted on 06/22/2017 11:57:54 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: tm61
Yeah that was the problem with bailing out before impact: you couldn't do it if the engine was running,

(The He-162 had a similar engine location, but the pilot was sitting on a an ejection seat)


25 posted on 06/22/2017 8:14:11 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (for the night is dark and full of terrorists)
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To: samtheman

Pungo Museum is huge. You could spend the entire day there and not cover everything.


26 posted on 06/28/2017 4:27:52 AM PDT by Don@VB (Power Corrupts)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; RushIsMyTeddyBear
"They had all sorts of crazy stuff! Read Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow. Tons of facts laced into his fictional narrative."

W.E.B. Griffin's "Men at War" series is also very good, and follows the recruitment, training and operational careers of OSS operatives during WWII. It too is fiction, but is very heavily laced with factual material regarding actual clandestine ops with hypothetical cameos by persons who were in the IC/Psyops in WWII (i.e. Ian Fleming, David Niven, Peter Ustinov etc.)

27 posted on 06/28/2017 4:36:04 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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