Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:05:16 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current marcketting name? Message-ID: <20021105190516.GA12623@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <88y988pqim.988@localhost.localdomain> References: <3DC6DB51.C0C18AEF@mindspring.com> <XFMail.20021104154558.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20021104211115.GA40027@tara.freenix.org> <88y988pqim.988@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:52:17PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> writes:
>
> > Even B-29 were not that much used during WWII, most of the big US bombers
> > were B-17 (Flying Fortress).
>
> The citizens of Tokyo who looked up to see more than 1000 B-29s over
> their city at once would probably think they WERE used "that" much.
> From Oct'44 onward, the horrors dropped on the cities of Japan by B-29s
> in the form of high explosives and incendiary bombs (eg, white
> phosphorus and Napalm) make some people consider the A-bombs humane by
> comparison. That part of history is too often hidden by the shadows of
> mushroom clouds.
True. More people were killed in the fire bombing of Dresden (130,000) than
in all the people who died Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. 66,000 and
39,000 respectively.
Josef
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