And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
A Royal Air Force Baltimore light bomber drops a series of bombs during an attack on the railway station and junction at the snow-covered town of Sulmona, a strategic point on the east-west route across Italy, in February of 1944.”
I hadn't either, but wikipedia said it was fairly effective and had a low combat loss rate once they started using effective tactics. It also said, and from the picture I believe it, that the crew could not change positions after takeoff due to fuselage width.
Lucky there were no Fokke Wolves around...
ReplyDeleteI've never even heard of a Baltimore light bomber, but it sure looks vulnerable. A dangerous mission to drop one little measly bomb.
DeleteI hadn't either, but wikipedia said it was fairly effective and had a low combat loss rate once they started using effective tactics. It also said, and from the picture I believe it, that the crew could not change positions after takeoff due to fuselage width.
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