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

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

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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