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Pete

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  1.   On 8/7/2015 at 6:52 PM, Dante said:

    War really is hell. Even though I've never been directly involved it's not hard to imagine the terrible situation it is. It seems lots of people are way to eager to engage in it these days. Usually it's the guys that don't have to participate

    Agreed. Europeons are so antiwar because they have seen it first hand many times. I hate chicken hawks. War is hell like you stated. It must be terrifying hearing a B52 heading your way, carpet bombing

  2.   On 8/7/2015 at 6:17 PM, eball said:

     

    My dad (7 at the time) survived the Dresden bombing. He, his mother, and his younger brother escaped the city in a pickup truck driven by their uncle

    The horror. In all, over three waves of attacks, 3,300 tons of bombs were dropped on the city. Many of the bombs that were dropped were incendiary bombs. These created so much fire that a firestorm developed. The more the city burned, the more oxygen was sucked in – and the greater the firestorm became. It is thought that the temperature peaked at 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The surface of roads melted and fleeing people found that their feet were burned as they ran.

    http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/the-bombing-campaign-of-world-war-two/the-bombing-of-dresden/

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