"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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| Subject: Greatest Strategic Air Missions?
| From: "Leadfoot"
| Date: 8/21/2004 5:51 PM Pacific Standard Time
| Message-id:
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| Actually my intent in using the word "strategic" was to avoid the listing
of
| missions such as "most aircraft shot down" or "most tanks busted" type
| missions which while important to any war effort wasn't what I was
looking
|
| How about missions that changed the world? Battle of Britain comes to
mind.
|
|
| Arthur Kramer




If (in this case) we draw a difference between 'mission' and 'campaign' ,
which is what the BoB really was, the significant mission on both sides,
would have been the decision to bomb each others' capital city.





Cheers


Dave Kearton