"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: the moron, was Fly tight for tight bomb patterns on the
ground.
From: Robert Briggs UCKET
Date: 8/26/2004 10:28 AM Pacific Standard Time
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Howard Berkowitz wrote:

Those survivors accounted for the bombs that were loaded aboard Art's
plane.

Again, I'll ask about the overall wartime contribution of someone
clearly not on the pointy end, Constance Babington-Smith. If her name
is unfamiliar, that should be corrected. Or on the very very pointy
end, Noor Inayat Khan or Virgina Hall or Sydney Cotton. Or back at
the ranch, Kelly Johnsom and Barnes Wallis.

And I *do* wonder how much chance Art would have stood without, for
example, the erks who maintained those noisy fan thingies hanging
from Willie's wings ...


I love the guys that maintained the noisy fan thingies that hung from
Willies
wings.
But we went to war. They didn'lt.

Really? Odd in that they seem to have been serving at the same airfields you
were based at, overseas in a time of war--if that is not "going to war",
then one wonders just what kind of strange criteria you apply to that
phrase.

They were all great, everyone of them. We
couldn't have done without them. But they were not of the band of
brothers.
Band of Brothers in the original Henry V context as well as the 101st AB
meant
those who fought the enemy. No one else is included.
And that means you.

Those maintainers who died in the various theaters of operation during the
conflict, sometimes indeed as casualties due to enemy action, seem to point
once again to the fallacy of your odd sense of perception.

Brooks




Arthur Kramer