BOC: Must these Englishmen live?

[Craig Shipley]

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From:   M R Godwin[SMTP:hssmrg at BATH.AC.UK]
Sent:   Thursday, April 24, 1997 5:07 AM
To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
Subject:        Re: BOC: Must these Englishmen live?

I think someone recently mentioned that the RAF were only doing night
raids, with the Americans taking the day shift.

That was me and yes, the RAF did the night shift and the USAAF did the day bombing.
"Round the clock destruction" was the fate of the Third Reich... The RAF did switch to day
bombing towards the end of the was and let us not forget that the RAF waged daily raids
throughout the war on various Continental targets.

1) Did the Me262s fly anti-bomber sorties at night? Or should it be "Must
these Americans live that I might die?"

Yes, but very few. Radar wasn't fitted until 1/45 and really needed the two-seat
version to be successful. By then, it was too late...

The line isn't really wrong, as the skies over Germany were full of Allied warplanes
of many nations. Granted, they may have been RAF a/c with a small Polish/Czech/
Free French logo, but they were there... So it could have even been "these Frenchmen".

2) Did BOC really write Me262 during an unsuccessful English tour, or is
this another of those unlikely Cully Stout Beer tales? (Possibly even from
the same article in Circus).

Dunno; Al?

All answers welcomed

- Mike Godwin

Craig Shipley
(who has a huge painting of a Spitfire and an RAF plaque on his mantle over the fireplace).

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