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- Sat May 26, 2007 2:38 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Proof that Churchill goaded Hitler into Terror Bombing
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31848
On the strength of your source — would you cite it? It's the war diary of the Wehrmacht High Command/National Defence Branch, as translated by Klee for the USAF. It's on one of the USAF web sites as a numbered historical diary. It's not the full diary, it only concerns the air war and Sea Lion from...
- Thu May 24, 2007 2:31 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Proof that Churchill goaded Hitler into Terror Bombing
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31848
- Tue May 22, 2007 2:57 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Proof that Churchill goaded Hitler into Terror Bombing
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31848
That same night the German towns of Geldern, Goch, Aldekerk, Rels and Wesel were attacked by the Whitleys of the 77 and 102nd Squadrons. It's worth noting that these 5 towns were attacked by a grand total of 9 bombers. The targets, of course, were their road and rail bridges, in order to cut off th...
- Sun May 20, 2007 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: How Churchill Won the Battle of Britain
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8381
- Fri May 18, 2007 11:11 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Proof that Churchill goaded Hitler into Terror Bombing
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31848
- Fri May 18, 2007 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Proof that Churchill goaded Hitler into Terror Bombing
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31848
These are very interesting facts. And I must revise my understanding — you have shown me that it was not the bombing of London that Churchill reacted to, but the bombing of CENTRAL London. I didn't understand that nuance before. However, although you have shown that the Greater London area was bomb...
- Fri May 04, 2007 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Proof that Churchill goaded Hitler into Terror Bombing
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31848
Churchill made reference to the jamming in his history of WW2, but he referring to the Germans being unable to navigate, not to them being deliberately sent to Dublin by British interference: On the very first night when the Germans committed themselves to the “Y apparatus,” our new counter-measures...
- Thu May 03, 2007 6:15 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Proof that Churchill goaded Hitler into Terror Bombing
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31848
When the Germans bombed Dublin by mistake (Churchill later admitted to interfering with the German radio beacon signals) Ireland didn't respond by bombing Berlin. The Irish maintained their neutrality. Not what Mr. Churchill planned. Do you know anything about the various German guidance beams and ...
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:35 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Proof that Churchill goaded Hitler into Terror Bombing
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31848
With all due respect, facts are facts. With all due respect, the facts are not as you have stated them. Some bits you left out of your timeline: July: Kesselring and Sperrle, commanders of the 2 main Luftwaffe air fleets in the BoB, present their plans for the campaign to Goering. They call for the...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:01 pm
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: 100 Octane fuel produce performance increases?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4350
Paul, the link in your first post doesn't work, do you have the correct one? I suspect the post is by a non-technical author, but I'd like to find out (I seem to remember seeing a similar quote attributed to Overy) if the hi-octane stuff was so wonderful, why wasn't it used? cost? It was. The Britis...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:55 pm
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: 100 Octane fuel produce performance increases?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4350
Higher octane fuel does one thing: it increases the pressure you can achieve before detonation. What that meant in practice in WW2 aircraft was it allowed higher supercharger boost pressures at low altitude. It had little effect at higher altitudes, because the superchargers couldn't provide enough ...
- Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: French airforce bombs Germany?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10013
I'd thought you were thinking of a British attempt to drop mines in the Rhine, or maybe a raid on a naval base. The RAF was not allowed to bomb Germany until the night of 10/11 May, following widespread German bombing of targets in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Even then, they were only allo...
- Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:05 pm
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: The truth abotu the Luftwaffe.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6422
- Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:38 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Damage done by German resistance against Nazis
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9394
For example, did the English really break the Engima Code or did somebody give it to them? The enigma code was broken by the Polish Intelligence Service who provided all information about it to the British and the French before the war. Enigma was not a code, it was an encoding machine. The setting...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:44 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Luftwaffa 46, Soviet Air Force 46?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4096
Where else did you think we got the idea for the stealth bomber and stealth fighter? The idea? Well, the idea of stealth has been around since radar. When the British developed chaff to protect their bombers, do you think no one came up with the idea of stopping the bombers showing up on radar at a...