The Old Warrior

[Hagar]

didn't the gladiator have a enclosed cockpit?

Yes Ivan. Check this out. http://www.battleofbritain.net/0008.html

Operation Pedestal, the Malta relief convoy, is another interesting story. http://www.usmm.org/malta.html

[ramsa329]

Thank you all again for the interesting replies.

I really don't intend for any political discussions when I post shots but I seem to get drawn into them.

Smoke2much,

The use of the word "ignorant" in regards to my knowledge of WWII is too much for me and I can't let it go.

Your complete lack of knowledge is truly frightening and for the sake of others and for those who died you need to be straightened out seriously.

Hermann Goering the leader of the Luftwaffe was tied completely to the SS and Himmler.

"Following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933, Goering was made Prussian Minister of the Interior, Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian Police and Gestapo and Commissioner for Aviation. As the creator of the secret police, Goering, together with Himmler (q.v.) and Heydrich (q.v.), set up the early concentration camps for political opponents, showing formidable energy in terrorizing and crushing all resistance."

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/goering.html

During the Nuremberg Trials it was proven that Luftwaffe Doctors requested that concentration camp inmates be used in experiments while German pilots watched and observed the effects.

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tg ... 9-05.shtml

Luftwaffe pilots including Galland, while in the Condor Legion, were well aware of and participated in the terror bombings and straffings in Spain including Guernica.

http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/ ... mbing.html

And in London during the fire bombings and in Russia during the wholesale slaughter of Russian civilians.

These were not the "mistakes of the past" as you so easily excuse. They were planned genocide.

And for you I have this to say............................

"those that don't know history are doomed to repeat it"

[Daz]

i left school 3 year ago and im still getting lumbered with history haha interesting there though