Westphalia, April 1945

[M R Godwin]

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Jon Jarrett wrote:

> > "They hung their dependent like some heavy metal fruit"?

>         Doesn't that refer to the bombers rather than the 262? Hanging
> "dependant from the sky"?

Oh, I see what you mean:
"They hung there, dependent from the sky"
rather than
"They hung their dependent (objects possessed by them) from the sky".

That certainly makes more sense with "these bombers are ripened".

Cheers

- Mike Godwin

PS Did you see that footage of the early Frank Whittle jets a few weeks
ago?