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
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>> 
>> 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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