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.
When I got my first job as an Engineer my Manager was an English guy who had witnessed the Battle of Britain as a boy in London. He once gave us a grim reminder that gravity exists and all those broken airplane parts, shell casings, bullets, bodies and body parts all return to earth.
Dad got hit in the helmet in the Philippines with a .50 cal case dropped by the Marine Corsairs that were strafing the Jap 16" gun that was shelling his unit.
The Germans were on top until they decided to abandon the idea of attacking airfields and attack infrastructure like docks and factories. That decision gave the RAF the breather they desperately needed and the rest is history.
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When I got my first job as an Engineer my Manager was an English guy who had witnessed the Battle of Britain as a boy in London. He once gave us a grim reminder that gravity exists and all those broken airplane parts, shell casings, bullets, bodies and body parts all return to earth.
ReplyDeleteI've often thought of all the .50 BMG brass cascading down during a bombing raid. If one of those dropped on you from 20,000 feet . . .
ReplyDeleteSpitfires used .303
DeleteDad got hit in the helmet in the Philippines with a .50 cal case dropped by the Marine Corsairs that were strafing the Jap 16" gun that was shelling his unit.
DeleteThe Germans were on top until they decided to abandon the idea of attacking airfields and attack infrastructure like docks and factories. That decision gave the RAF the breather they desperately needed and the rest is history.
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