FReepathon day 40.
Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.
Posted on 08/10/2014 12:50:30 PM PDT by not2be4gotten.com
To the smartest people in the world, here on FR.
It’s rather hard to bomb a mine.
Could be because there were more critical targets.
It's amazes me that there are people in this country who are STILL mesmerized by Hitler and those years (1933-44).
1933: 81 years ago.
I lay no claim to being overly smart, but perhaps it had to do with the resultant mine fire that could burn for years?
Maybe a global warming skeptic warned them about that. /s
When you bomb coal, you are doing the miners’ job for them.
Either your explosives or theirs; which makes more sense?
It makes no tactical sense.
If you bomb the railroads and bridges used to transport the coal and the power plants that use the coal it’s not going anywhere.
Someone didn’t want it bombed.
destroying production plants for equipment means that you stop or delay production. Destroying the refining facilities for oil stops gas and diesel production. Destroying the steel mills stops steel production.
Thus more “bang for bomb” in destroying them than trying to hit the mine shaft heads or bombing the oil wells.
Bombing strategy changed several times during the war. Sometimes it changed between one raid and the next. They never, for example, targeted power plants. They only did one bombing on a dam, despite the tremendous potential for secondary destruction. They went to area bombing because a study showed that only a few bombs got within five miles of their intended target. How would one bomb a mine? It’s already a hole in the ground.
Isn’t a mine just a giant bomb shelter?
The Rockefellers?
Follow the money...
Was there any art stored there?
You’re an idiot!
It was obviously owned by the Bushes.
Part of Joe Kennedy’s investments...
Forgot to add the (Prescott) Bushes...
Who worked the mine?
Ernie Ford.
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