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Group: alt.fiftyplus.friends · Group Profile
Author: JD CooperJD Cooper Date: May 31, 2008 09:54
Baba Mung wrote:
>>Jim Chandler gte.net> writes
>>>>>JD Cooper wrote:
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>>>The incendiaries were a form of cluster bomb. The main bomb was dropped
>>>and broke open in freefall scattering the incendiary charges over a
>>>greater area.
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>>>Jim
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>>Yep! We had some fall on Manchester. Have you ever been on the
>>receiving end? Gives you a whole new perspective. ;-)
>>--
>>Gordon H
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> Have aircraft ever bombed an American city? So far as I know all of the
> USA's major engagements in the last 60 years have been conducted a long
> long way from the American mainland. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and
> never against an enemy capable of putting a military aircraft over an
> American city.
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> Baba
in fact, "enemies" capable of putting military aircraft over our cites
are also smart enough not to. We'd be speaking of the USSR, ferzample.
JD
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