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Posted On: 08/28/2017 10:09:18 PM
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Posted By: Bhawks
Re: wowhappens28 #1749
Fascinating. I was always surprised when I heard the scale of the losses in the air war over Germany. Staggering

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http://www.taphilo.com/history/8thaf/8aflosses.shtml

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

-- Randall Jarrell



Stunning that the American and British losses were almost exactly the same. 24K more Americans died in the air war over Europe than died in Vietnam. Mind boggling.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombi...rld_War_II


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