Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Bombs Away - The World War II Bombing Campaigns over Europe


SEVEN DECADES AGO, battles raged across Europe's flak-torn skies. That epic clash consumed tens of thousands of aircraft born from the factories of a dozen nations. Riding them down to their final, fiery resting places were men of passion, vision, and dedication, they died horribly, trapped in the machines that bore them aloft as flames engulfed them. Few deaths can ever reach that level of pain and misery. Visit the battlefield at Verdun and the shell-torn land still harbors wounds even a century has not healed. Not so with the titanic struggle to control Europe's skies during the six years it took to defeat Nazi Germany. Those skies are empty now; there are no telltale scars to be found among the clouds. Time and the nature of the lighting have swept away every vestige of what will probably remain the largest air war in human history.

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