I remember the Stuka dive bombers from the movie newsreels on Saturdays. Certainly terrifying images. Not such strong memories of print news.
Drones and Guernica -- today's images. Gene On Jul 20, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > One of my earliest memories as a reader of news was the bombing of Rotterdam > & the horrified reaction to it. And it was so slight a thing compared to the > subsequent history of the U.S. Air Force. > > Carrol > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Shane Mage >> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 11:55 AM >> To: Progressive Economics >> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Judge Challenges White House Claims on Authority in >> Drone Killings >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
