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Post by yeoldetangerine on Feb 5, 2012 11:00:10 GMT 1
BBC1 tonight, 21.00, looks good
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Post by yenilira on Feb 5, 2012 11:08:33 GMT 1
Ewan & Colin McGregor?
Yes, that'll be interesting.
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 5, 2012 11:18:30 GMT 1
Looking forward to it.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Feb 5, 2012 11:52:07 GMT 1
Hope its as good as the book, because that really brings home the story of what happened and how Churchill failed to recognize them all at the end of the war because of the strategy undertaken on his approval
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Post by yenilira on Feb 6, 2012 15:35:35 GMT 1
Good doc, was it?
Yes, I missed it - Damn!
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 6, 2012 17:08:26 GMT 1
It was very well done, I think at the end the McGregors had a dilema as to whether their consciences were happy with saturated bombing of German cities. It was just as well they hadn't gone one step further and looked at the Cold War with each aircraft carrying a nuclear device capable of mass destruction on a much greater scale than the Lancasters. For the three years I was with the RAF, it never once entered my head, my main concern at the time was not having to bale out into the sea off Northern Norway or the Baltic, where survival during the winter months is about zero.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Feb 7, 2012 8:52:33 GMT 1
Still wish they had got across that the saturated bombing of German cities was at the request of the Russians and approved and ordered by the Winston and Roosevelt
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Post by yeoldetangerine on Feb 7, 2012 9:08:59 GMT 1
Agreed, Sherlock, the only mention of it was re Dresden. I read Arthur Harris's biography, and I think the aftermath was one of Churchill's least finest hours.
And the real impact was 1 million soldiers and tens of thousands of AA guns tied up in Germany, not in the East or France
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Feb 7, 2012 13:37:26 GMT 1
I finished the book Bomber boys about 2 weeks ago and while Harris was pig headed and held true to his beliefs it seems that his boss Charles Portal while always trying to avoid confrontation with Harris also agreed with the strategy and told Churchill the same.
But as the war came to a end and it was time for history to be written everyone of them distanced themselves from the campaign and still to this day they have no official recognition of what they did or memorial to the lives lost in carrying out their duty.
and people forget that 85% of the crews where volunteers to the service My grandfather met Harris a few times and always said he had been treated badly and made the villain in the piece, and while always appearing distant and cold towards his men was in fact disturbed at what he was asking them to do on a nightly basis
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