Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ?.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com.invalid typed <shakes head in admiration> TOG, you genuinely *never* cease to amaze me. It just never, ever fails, does it? I swear, as the final spark of energy fizzles out in a heat-dead Universe many billions of years from now, a redneck accent will echo across the vast, empty nothingness. And it will say "Oh yeah? Well, if it wasn't for us buddy, you'd all be speaking German!". -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer
V1s and V2s between them killed about 9,000 people in London in 1944 and 1945. Big deal - the Blitz killed about 43,000. Germany had already lost the war by the time the V2 was in operation. The V2 was a stupid weapon, anyway: each one cost as much as a bomber, and they weren't that accurate. The principal achievements of the V2 programme was to drain Germany's resources and hasten the end of the war, and to kick-start the US space and missile developments. Can I mention the Miles M.52 now?
Not unless I can bring up Frisch and Peierls ,and MAUD again. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
Uncannily close in context. Who know what Miss Rey of Kent was in the habit of wearing. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
Funny that; you would be referring to Aug/Sep 1940, I take it? Not many Americans on British soil then - a few, I admit, who joined in early and lent their weight to the fight against fascism ( and much credit to them). The whole 'week away' period you mean was handled quite well by the RAF and a certain ruthless bunch of cunts in charge.
Thought I'd missed something whilst playing my guitar in the basement. -- Bob Mann Before you critisize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you critisize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Ahhh, that. We're getting used to it. At least the US went through the motions of investigating the incident. -- Bob Mann Before you critisize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you critisize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
But they did kindly offer to sell us equipment. -- Bob Mann Before you critisize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you critisize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Ah, was that with the help of the cowardly French, no? If the French had never assisted you (or given you smelly cheese), you'd still be under control of the Queen.
A few rockets, each delivering a tmere onne of HE. It was never going to be a war-winner without a nuke on the pointy end.
1944. And not very many of them. Are you seriously suggesting they'd have won the war? You're more ignorant than your posting name suggests.
I don't think invasion as late as that would have worked. The really dangerous time was early June. The Government was ---> <--- tht close to making peace (Halifax's faction) and the RAF was in disarray. And there was nothing except a couple of old flintlocks in the armoury. A landing, even a small one, then might have been enough to make the Government throw out Churchill and sue for peace. Aren't the Septics making a film at the moment about how the US pilots won the Battle of Britain for us in 1940?
<Holds head in hands> Never mind, never mind. Shit, you obviously think bait is something always accompanied by the word 'jail'.
That would be when airmen from European countries that had been invaded, Commonwealth countries and a few renegade Americans (who ignored their governments blatant cowardice) piled in to assist and I'd never criticise any of them for their sacrifices.