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To: DMZFrank

It was the second Schweinfurt raid (Oct 14, 1943), the one they call Black Thursday, that shut down the deep penetration raids for a few months until the P-51B/C/D was ready. The first one was the simultaneous raids on Schweinfurt and Regensberg (Aug 17, 43). Both raids lost 60 bombers and therefore 600 men. Actually more than that because many of the bombers that came back brought home dead crew members. (Some of the British night raids lost 80 and 90 bombers.)

We're going to pay a horrible price for being so gutless, soft, and willfully ignorant of the dark side of human nature. The best guarantor of war with record breaking slaughter is a peace-at-all-costs attitude.


12 posted on 07/06/2006 5:43:17 PM PDT by Zhangliqun (The fetal position has yet to scare a bully.)
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To: Zhangliqun
...because many of the bombers that came back brought home dead crew members.

On some, every man on board was either wounded or dead.

13 posted on 07/06/2006 6:29:10 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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