RE: Pride and Arrogance Re: American Attitudes (was Re: Hardworking?)

[Charlie Bell]

> >Lack of vision from everyone else. It still astounds me that the US
> >Army didn't spot this as a way to blow people up from much further >away.
>
> As best I can tell, when Germany used the rockets, it was a waste
> of money.
> The V1 and V2 killed very few compared to the bombing campaings of any of
> the countries: either Allied or Axis.

I'm not sure that killing was the point. Terror was. First the doodlebug,
with the weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeBANG!!! (as my
grandad vividly described it to me), then the V2 with silent death.

> I've read that
> anti-aircraft rockets
> might have been a good investment though.  We're lucky they spent their
> money on that, and didn't have the money for an A-bomb.

I thought they weren't *that* far behind, a couple of years at best.

> IIRC, missles weren't an effective weapon until the late '50s.

In terms of death, probably not.

Charlie.