Subject: Area bombing is not a dirty word.
From: (Drazen Kramaric)
Date: 1/9/04 4:08 AM Pacific

As the war progressed, the AA personnel was largely comprised of
people unfit for the front: high school teenagers, girls, WW1
veterans, Soviet POWs etc.

They were called the FLAK KINDER and were mostly young men of high school age.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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