OFF: UK Charts

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On ons 5 aug 1998 18.48 +0100 "Dave Berry" <daveb at HARLEQUIN.CO.UK> wrote:
> At 10:06 05/08/98 -0700, BREVARD, Adrian R. wrote:
>>But would you want to be a driver or gunner in a tank?
>>Air battles are more glamorous and modern day warfare says you must rule
>>the skies to win a war.
>
> I believe the average life expectancy of a pilot in the Battle Of Britain
> was about two months.  I can't remember where I heard this though, so it
> may be just a factoid.

     I recall a similar figure--and even shorter ones for pilots
in WWI.  And, conversely, I imagine the chances of survival for
the average American tank crewman in the Gulf War was very good
indeed ;)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
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