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Offline brady

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« on: February 19, 2003, 12:35:22 PM »
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2003, 12:53:05 PM »
He missed a few....
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2003, 12:53:40 PM »
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Offline frank3

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« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2003, 01:25:41 PM »
he looks like a general?
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Offline devious

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« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2003, 01:27:02 PM »
Numbers 2 & 3: Some americans really getting a hang of behaving retarded ? If so, he missed all my family in ww2, the stupid shreck. My grampa got one of his planes with a 88 though :P

Um btw, you like bombing infants ? Fischer and Schröder were by then.

Maybe you should gas every last iraqi to get the bloodlust settled.

For the record, Brady`s some british staff guy.
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Offline ra

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« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2003, 01:33:18 PM »
Germans lecturing others about bloodlust, what next?
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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2003, 01:37:48 PM »
I'm going to hazard a guess due to the vitrol (sp??) in this thread and say it is "Bomber Harris"

Master planner of the Dresden firebombing etc etc.

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Offline Gulbert

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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2003, 03:58:27 PM »
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris it is indeed.

Grunherz, it´s time for your nap now, go to bed.
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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2003, 04:15:45 PM »
""Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris ""..."sir"?

i heard harris was the only high ranking british officer NOT  to be knighted after the war.
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Offline Nashwan

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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2003, 04:42:55 PM »
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i heard harris was the only high ranking british officer NOT to be knighted after the war.

Harris was knighted, in 1942 iirc.
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« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2003, 04:45:31 PM »
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""Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris ""..."sir"?

i heard harris was the only high ranking british officer NOT  to be knighted after the war.


Although Harris was promoted Air Marshal at the end of the war in 1945, he was not made a peer unlike the other high commanders of the war. Politicians, including Churchill did not want to be too closely linked with the Bomber Command. Some felt that he had been made a scapegoat of political expediency. Harris retired from the RAF in 1946 and left for his beloved South Africa where he ran a shipping business until he returned to England in 1953. He was offered a peerage belatedly in 1953 but he accepted only a baronetcy. He died in 1984 at the age of 91.

Adapted from the books:

"The Bomber Command Handbook 1939 --1945" by Jonathan Falconer

" ‘Bomber’ Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939 --1945" by Charles Messenger

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Offline Gulbert

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« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2003, 04:57:55 PM »
Molotow has his facts straight.

Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett was the only bomber group commander not to receive a knighthood. He was appointed by Harris as commander of the Pathfinder Force.
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« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2003, 03:11:01 AM »
Well what I posted was both a jab at what Harris did and jab at my two favorite german politicians now. Obviously it was above your level...
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« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2003, 03:26:38 AM »
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Germans lecturing others about bloodlust, what next?


Sirya replacing the USA by vote on the UN Human Rights commision and Libya heading it?

Iraq leading UN world disarmament talks?
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« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2003, 05:21:37 AM »
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Germans lecturing others about bloodlust, what next?



America lecturing others about freedom and democracy?. Want me to recall your nation's nice achievements on those grounds in the 50s,60s, and 70s?. I guess not.


BTW please leave the politics for the Off-topic forum. Leave this one for aircraft related topics.

Thank you.
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