Captain virgil roadkill whatever your name is.
you obviously take your history lessons from a decent book. perhaps that fine literary masterpeice of accurate historical info called ....hmmm what was it now?.....ah yes 'marvel's GI JOE' COMIC book.
Im british and as such on the allies side involving discussions on WW2 but unlike you i dont choose to believe the hype of hollywood movies.I prefer to read a whole selection of accounts ranging from German to British and American with as many others as its possible to find like Italian,Russian etc. I read accounts by the Australian and New Zealanders which dont always show my country (Britian) in a good light concerning what we asked of them.You see in my view the truth is more important than being able to claim my country had a 'top ace' etc.
heres an excerpt from 'Combat Crews' by John Comer who was in the 112th Cavalry in 1928 and never liked horses after that
.In 1943 he flew the missions from England on which this book is based.He was Engineer-top turret gunner in Fortresses.In 1944 he flew 50 missions from Italy.
this is on the return from a mission:
' As we approached Ridgewell, Kels punched me and pointed down "Cahow is buzzing the field" Indeed he was.At the 381st it was customary to permit a pilot returning from his twenty-fifth mission to buzz the field in celebration of a job well done.
That day we lost seventeen Forts to German fighters.To my thinking the loss was exessive.It was the familiar pattern of late: loose, erratic formations inviting Jerry to attack.The accumulated losses in men and aircraft during the summer and fall of 1943 were staggering and beyond expectations.The replacement crews were put through speeded up training procedures, by no means as thorough as the original 381st received. The predictable result was that inexperienced pilots and crews predominated, and the price we paid was higher casualties than should have been necessary.In the air as on the ground, raw troops rarely fare well against seasoned battle-hardened forces.But an attrition factor was working for us: we were thinning out the experienced pilots of the luftwaffe.When a veteran German pilot with eight to ten years of training plus experience in numerous campaigns was lost, they could not replace him any faster than we could create his counterpart in the U.S. or England.The advantage in attrition gradually shifted to the side with the largest manpower and industrial facilities. Fortunately, that was the combined might of the Allied forces.'
Now pardon me but this hardly sounds like a 'nazi' roadkillting about how the Allies managed to overwhelm the LW does it? so why have you idiots got to start accusing people on here who are trying to describe this to you of the same?.
If you ask me you people saound like morons with no idea about what went on up there and hardly ever read a book on the subject.If you did, and i mean read almost ANY book about it you would know what was said in this excerpt is the accepted truth.
We, the allies, didnt always have the better equiptment or even the more experienced pilots, but we kept on attacking and attacking regardless almost of the losses until we broke Germanies back in a war of resources and manpower.Choose to believe otherwise and keep reading your comics if you have to but please dont post on here like you know what youre talking about because its pretty clear you dont.
What I find quite repulsive is this constant 'we had the best planes, best pilots, best this, best that,' crap you people keep spewing.Dont you realise that when you try to make out the LW as some third rate outfit you actually belittle what our forces had to face and win against?
You make it out as if the allies had it easy when it was a struggle.Its a comic book mentality you all seem to have. Like i said before yes there were days when the LW had the numbers in a LOCAL battle and there were days when the escorts were in the right place at the right time and outnumbered what the LW put up but overall the LW were simply outproduced and like this author i quoted says they simply could not replace the experienced pilots once they were lost and then it was down to who had the most manpower. Now whether you accept this or not is up to you but im pretty sure I'll believe a REAL veterans story rather than some virtual gamesplayer who thinks he actually is a captain in some fictitious virtual squadron.I think you might just need medical help myself
