"GC" wrote in message
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A question to the group.
Is the History channel distorting the facts?
I have noticed in recent weeks a number of totally incorrect comments .eg
Americans landing in Rabaul during WW2,(its Rab owl by the way not Rab
all)
The shooting down of Yamamoto's aircraft was an assassination..
B17's being used during the day in Europe as they were precision bombers
not carpet bombers as the RAF were ?

The USAAF had a different name for "carpet Bombing"
but it was the same thing. If one considers
that the weather in Europe is sufficiently bad
that if the USAAF didn't BOMB THROUGH
CLOUD (carpet bombing by another name)
they wouldn't have bombed at all.
There were many days when the USAAF
did their "precision bombing" using
H2S GEE GH and Oboe, the same as
the RAF. American bomb aimers using
these "precission blind bombing"
devices could no more pick out a factory
that should be bombed than could the RAF
bomb aimers.

If the sky was clear when the USAAF bombed,
ONLY the LEAD aircraft bombardier
aimed at the "precision target" and when he
"toggled" his bomb load, ALL the rest
of the bombardiers/toggliers dropped their
bombs. If you consider the horizontal
area covered by all the USAAF bombers
when they "toggled" their bombs one would
have to believe that the factory/military
target must have taken up a huge area
on the ground so that the USAAF could honestly
make the claim that "they only bombed
military targets"!

One should also mention that the lie
that the USAAF DIDN'T TARGET CIVILIANS
can be put to rest, because the escorting fighter
pilots were ORDERED to STRAF civilians
on their way home.

Bit of hypocracy involved one might say!







They are a few of very many I can recall.