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To: FourPeas
Yup. Bockscar. It's at Wright-Pat.

That's the one. The B-29 is an impressive aircraft. The other significant plane is the Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.

Anyone who is interested in the history of air combat needs to visit the US Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton. You can spend a day looking at historically important aircraft.

Apparently no one at CNN had bothered with this, but then again CNN is not concerned with reporting the facts.

100 posted on 08/09/2003 8:59:02 PM PDT by SaveTheChief
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To: SaveTheChief
Anyone who is interested in the history of air combat needs to visit the US Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton. You can spend a day looking at historically important aircraft.

Actually, you had better schedule two days to rummage through the museum, there's just too much to look at and study that one day is not enough.

But getting back to the "meat" of this thread...CNN used the description of a B-52 dropping the "bomb" because, as everyone knows, the B-52 is the US Nuclear Bomber and has been for decades. The reporting ninnies didn't take History classes in High School or College. And what little history they were exposed to was so much watered down, PC-laden crapola that highlighted exploitation of everybody by the bad europeans. They can't help it, their knowledge base has been shaped from a (brief) lifetime of having opinion shoveled into their mush-like brains instead of actually reading and studying factual texts.

164 posted on 08/10/2003 4:40:40 AM PDT by woofer
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