[kj] OT: Messerschmitt (was re: Jaz's Birthday)

[bongo]

is that why nasa is so close to nazi? just a thought...

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:09 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard
<bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Yeah, I know there was a big scramble in '45 between the US/UK/Allies

> and the Russians to appropriate Nazi science once Germany was occupied.

> That included the US's "Operation Paperclip," --

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_paperclip -- which was

> essentially the importing of Nazi scientists into the US, excusing them

> of war crimes, etc., and putting them to work at places like White

> Sands, etc.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> Brendan Quinn wrote:

> > Despite an eventual technological advantage, it came too late. They got

> > pasted in the air war by the Allies. Which included pilots from many

> > countries as well as the RAF and USAF.

> >

> > In 44 / 45 the Allies had air superiority, to the extent that they conducted

> > terror raids, bombing remote villages and towns, farms, massive carpet

> > bombing of cities (Dresden is a name everyone is aware of in that

> > context)...to demonstrate to the german people that they were completely

> > beaten in the air, the propaganda from their own side was just that, and

> > they could be attacked wherever, whenever, and they would be.

> >

> >

>

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