When I think about WWII I tend to think of US involvement in the war. My Uncle co-piloted a b-17 on key missions,was shot down, survived, and spent the remainder of the war in Stalag III. I have been reading with much interest one of the greatest air battles in history was going on in autumn 1940... Long before the Allied invasion of Europe. The results of this nearly four month battle were staggering and to think London sustained no less than 57 days of heavy bombers (Heinkel He 111) with numbers of 200 or more per day, ....survived by the skin of her teeth. Of the pilots and air command of the R.A.F. Churchhill said his famous words, Never was so much owed by so many to so few. Hitler was stunned the British would not lay down and surrender. No wonder, when the time was right, we launched such massive raids with our heavy bombers and as my father-in-law used to say ....with the intent of removing their will to make war. I had the occasion to visit communist East Berlin in 1975 and still saw parts of Berlin that remained in rubble, thirty years later, from the allied response. I cannot even imagine what it looked like by the end of 1945. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:40:25 +0000
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