On Jul 20, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
How many English died in the German bombing during the summer of 1940?
Very few. The late summer and early fall had the "battle of Britain," which was won by the RAF and prevented the Luftwaffe from tactically effective operations. It was only then (and only after the RAF had bombed Hamburg in imitation of what Göring had done to Rotterdam) that Hitler turned to the nocturnal "Blitz" against the civilian population of Coventry and London (which he--for some still-unknown reason--terminated immediately after his most effective exploit, the fire-bombing of London).
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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