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On 1/26/16 10:37 PM, Mark Lause wrote:
This is unbelievably good--and I'm generally very skeptical about how these things get addressed on TV.
This really is an amazing documentary. Frankly, I was surprised to see it aired on PBS. One interesting element was the use of air power against the miners. Billy Mitchell, a general associated with aerial bombing, was called in to administer the possible use of 3 bombers as the war with the miners escalated. Keep in mind that the Italians court-martialed their Billy Mitchell for advocating aerial bombing. Mitchell's bombers were never used but one of the coal bosses decided to hire his own pilot to drop an improvised bomb on the miners, a pipe filled with bolts, etc. In other words, an early version of the barrel bomb that Assad uses.
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