Stuka flying??
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From: New South Wales
I must say that I am absolutely sickened when I have to go to "Chambers of Horrors" type places with children (most recently I had to go to the London Dungeons for one of my kids' birthdays).
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Sub Judice Angel Lovegod
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From: London
I certainly wouldn't go again now.
I hadn't been to such a place since childhood until taking a birthday party group a couple of years ago and it was on that trip that I had these feelings of revulsion.
Timothy
I hadn't been to such a place since childhood until taking a birthday party group a couple of years ago and it was on that trip that I had these feelings of revulsion.
Timothy
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From: Harpenden
Hmmm....
Maybe in about fifty years it would be possible to look at a JU87 as an historical curiosity. There still plenty of people about who had their countries overrun by the use of blitzkrieg who might find it less than tactful if you were to display the precision bombing that made the contemporary defences ineffective.
Britain could have been invaded very early on in the war. The medditeranean fleet was largely destroyed by dive bombimg as were many of the south coast defences.
The thing that turned the tide was Britain's lousy weather. It's hard to do precision bombing in crap vis.
Nowadays all armed forces use the same tactics to achieve quick and decisive victories. Air strikes are used against strategic targets until the main part of the opponents' defences are destroyed and the ground troops move in to take control. It may seem vicious (and indeed it is), but it may be more humane than mass bombing from high level or continuous atillery bombardment.
Maybe in about fifty years it would be possible to look at a JU87 as an historical curiosity. There still plenty of people about who had their countries overrun by the use of blitzkrieg who might find it less than tactful if you were to display the precision bombing that made the contemporary defences ineffective.
Britain could have been invaded very early on in the war. The medditeranean fleet was largely destroyed by dive bombimg as were many of the south coast defences.
The thing that turned the tide was Britain's lousy weather. It's hard to do precision bombing in crap vis.
Nowadays all armed forces use the same tactics to achieve quick and decisive victories. Air strikes are used against strategic targets until the main part of the opponents' defences are destroyed and the ground troops move in to take control. It may seem vicious (and indeed it is), but it may be more humane than mass bombing from high level or continuous atillery bombardment.
