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12-09-2006, 11:51 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kiwi Land
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| RAF USAF ETO analysis Now this guy gets 10 points for an open minded approach. And quite startling informating presented in a logical manner. Strategic Air
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12-10-2006, 11:23 AM
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 | too much to read right now but there does look to be a lot of interesting stats! looks very enlightening..........
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12-10-2006, 02:43 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Berlin (Kreuzberg)
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| I got through the read and am fascinated by it. Noteworthy to say that I didnīt knewed that german AAA was responsible for 30-50% of all heavy bomber losses over ETO. Thatīs painfully much.
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12-10-2006, 03:15 PM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Wow that was very interesting.
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12-12-2006, 01:07 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: City of the Angels California
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| Well, bombers on all sides suffered high mortality rates. The study goes a long way to emphasize that. Those Luftstalags were filled with mostly bomber guys.....
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12-12-2006, 01:30 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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 | Certainly proved the "bomber will always get through" theory to be wrong. Very interesting kiwi.
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