From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 5 11: 5:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C88FE37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdead.mooseriver.com (gdead.mooseriver.com [205.166.121.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CDB43E4A for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:05:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: from mooseriver.com (h-66-166-146-73.SNVACAID.covad.net [66.166.146.73]) by gdead.mooseriver.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA5J5MTn057163; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:05:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by mooseriver.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gA5J5G58012803; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:05:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:05:16 -0800 From: Josef Grosch To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current marcketting name? Message-ID: <20021105190516.GA12623@mooseriver.com> Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <3DC6DB51.C0C18AEF@mindspring.com> <20021104211115.GA40027@tara.freenix.org> <88y988pqim.988@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <88y988pqim.988@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:52:17PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Ollivier Robert writes: > > > Even B-29 were not that much used during WWII, most of the big US bombers > > were B-17 (Flying Fortress). > > The citizens of Tokyo who looked up to see more than 1000 B-29s over > their city at once would probably think they WERE used "that" much. > From Oct'44 onward, the horrors dropped on the cities of Japan by B-29s > in the form of high explosives and incendiary bombs (eg, white > phosphorus and Napalm) make some people consider the A-bombs humane by > comparison. That part of history is too often hidden by the shadows of > mushroom clouds. True. More people were killed in the fire bombing of Dresden (130,000) than in all the people who died Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. 66,000 and 39,000 respectively. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | www.bafug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message