One of my earliest memories as a reader of news was the bombing of Rotterdam & the horrified reaction to it. And it was so slight a thing compared to the subsequent history of the U.S. Air Force.
Carrol > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Shane Mage > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 11:55 AM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Judge Challenges White House Claims on Authority in > Drone Killings > > > On Jul 20, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > > > > How many English died in the German bombing during the summer > of 1940? > > > Very few. The late summer and early fall had the "battle of Britain," which > was won by the RAF and prevented the Luftwaffe from tactically effective > operations. It was only then (and only after the RAF had bombed Hamburg in > imitation of what Göring had done to > Rotterdam) that Hitler turned to the nocturnal "Blitz" against the civilian > population of Coventry and London (which he--for some > still-unknown reason--terminated immediately after his most effective > exploit, the fire-bombing of London). > > Shane Mage > > "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 > > > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
