The 8th Army Air Force: Cool, collected, calmness under fire.

The following excerpts come from famed journalist and eventual war casualty
Ernie Pyle.  They describe the experience of seeing and hearing the 8th Army
Air Force approach an enemy target and then unleash its fire power upon its tar-
get.   More specifically, they come from the journalist's account of the July 25,
1944 bombing of the Panzer Lehr Division near St. Lo, France.  At the time of
the air raid, American troops were approximately 1,500 yards from the targeted
Panzer Lehr troops, making the air raid a surgical military operation:

...  "And then a new sound gradually droned into our ears.   The sound 

     was deep and all encompassing, with no notes in it --- just a gigantic 

     far away surge of doom-like sound.   It was the heavies." ...

...  "I've never known a storm or a machine or any resolve of man that
       had about it the aura of such ghastly relentlessness." ... 

... "The Germans began to shoot heavy, high ack-ack (88mm canon fire).

      Great black puffs of it by the score speckled the sky until it was hard

      to distinguish the smoke puffs from the planes.   And then, someone

      shouted that one of the planes was smoking.  Yes, we could all see it." ...

... "But before it was done there were more cries of 'There's another one 

      smoking, and there's a third one now!'  Chutes came out of some of 

      the planes, and out of some came no chutes at all." ... 

... "And all that time the great flat ceiling of the sky was roofed by all

     the others that didn't go down,  plowing their way forward,  as if

     there were no turmoil in the world.   Nothing deviated them by the 

     slightest.   They stalked on slowly,  with a dreadful pall of sound, 

     as though they were seeing only something at a great distance and 

    (as if) nothing existed in between."   ...

..."and then the bombs came.   They began ahead of us as a crackle 

     of popcorn and almost instantly swelled into a monstrous fury of 

    noise that seemed surely to destroy all the world ahead of us.  From   

    then on, for an hour and a half that had in it the agonies of the cen-

    turies, the bombs came down." ...

..."By now everything was an indescribable cauldron of sound.   Indi-

    vidual noises did not exist.  The thundering of motors in the sky and

    the roar of the bombs ahead filled all the space (spatial capacity) for 
    noise on earth.   Our own artillery was crashing all around us,  yet 
    we could hardly hear it."

  A narration of the same event, as was seen by General Fritz Bayerlein,

  the commanding Nazi officer caught in the middle of it, goes as follows: 

"The entrenched infantry was either smashed by the heavy bombs while 

  in their foxholes and dugouts or else they were killed and buried by the 

  blast.   Infantry and artillery positions were blown up.  The bombed-out

  area was entirely transformed into a field covered with craters, where no 

  human was left alive.   Tanks and guns were destroyed and overturned, 

  unable to be recovered, because all roads and passages were blocked." 

  General Bayerlein also wrote: 

"The shock effect was nearly as strong the physical effect" ... "Some of the 

   men got crazy and were unable to carry out anything.   I was personally 
   in the center of the bombardment and could experience the tremendous 
   effect.  For me, one who, during this war, was at every theater of opera-
   tion, and who had been assigned to the places of the main efforts,  this
   was the worst thing I ever saw." 

   Bayerlein summarized the aftermath in the following way:        

  "My front lines looked like the face of the moon, and at least 70%          

    of my troops were out of action - dead, wounded, crazed, or numb."
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The airmen of the 8th Army Air Force enlisted for the entire duration of the war that
was started by Adolph Hitler and his war machine.   These airmen were literally in
it till death  ...  of either themselves or their heavily equipped enemy.  During their
tours of duty, there were multiple occasions when 88, 108, and 128 mm canon fire
would barrage them so intensely that the surviving airmen would wonder how they
made through it the high speed metal hailstorms.   They would return to British air
bases, only to be impressed by the amount of battle damage that their B-17 Flying
Fortresses and B-24 Liberators endured in flight.

During WWII, if you were in Germany during daylight hours and heard a thunder-
ous roar of airplane engines approaching you, it was always the Americans in all
their audacity, coming in plain sight, in order to have a better chance at hitting the
Nazi industrial war machine.  This included V1 rocket sites, Luftwaffe air bases,
Tiger Tank factories, warplane assembly lines, truck assembly lines, military rail
yards, chemical plants, fuel depots, buzz bomb sites, gun positions, and even the
Panzer Lehr Division which, within one ninety minute span of time, was no longer
the Fatherland's impenetrable armored division.  When compared to the strategic
8th Army Air Force, and even the tactical 9th, the mighty Panzer Lehr Division
was no stronger than cardboard boxes and coastline sand castles.

In a nutshell, if the 8th Army Air Force didn't knock out the Nazi German war in-
dustry, World War II would have endured much longer than it did, resulting in far
more casualties than it did.   In fact, if the 8th AAF didn't make a dedicated effort
in bombing Nazi rail yards in France, the allied invaders of Normandy would have
been met with far more resistance than they did.

As a general rule, the easiest missions where those made to submarine bull pens
and V1 Rocket sites.   Close encounters with death often occurred during those
missions that targeted the various Nazi marshaling yards, tank factories, and war-
plane assembly plants.  A marshaling yard, incidentally, was a railway staging area
that sent Nazi troops, supplies, and ordnance rolling.   The 8th Army Air Force
stopped the rolling, but only at a heavy price, being that the Nazi marshaling yards
were so heavily defended.

The 8th Army Air Force carried on its bombers men as iconic as Jimmy Stewart,
Walter Cronkite, Clark Gable, and the famous 60 Minutes Tour de Farce master,
Andy Rooney.  In performing its missions during daylight hours, it was a corps
of sitting ducks in the sky. 

The Presence of the 8th Army Air Force
in the European Theater of Operation
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Of the 115,332 casualties sustained by the U.S. Army Air Force during WWII, 41%

of them were Eighth Army Air Force casualties.  Of the 47,483 casualties sustained

by the Eighth Army Air Force in WWII, over 26,000 were fatalities.   This exceed-

ed the 19,733 combat deaths and 24,511 total deaths that the U.S. Marine Corps

sustained during the same war.

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"We didn't get any flak until we got to the I.P.   Over the target, it 

 was a barrage. (Very intense.)   Twenty-six ships in all went down."

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Over 28,000 airmen of the Eighth Army Air Force became prisoners of war in Eur-

ope.   Other airmen who bailed out over Nazi airspace were rescued by French,

Belgian, or Dutch underground networks.   Other airmen, upon parachuting to the

earth, were lynched by German civilians.

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"Over this target, I saw one ship go down in a ball of fire.   At the 

   coast, I saw another one go into a tight spin.   It blew up when it

   hit the ground.   I only saw five chutes come out of this one."

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As the war in Europe progressed, the ratio of flak-induced casualties to the fighter-

induced ones increased significantly.   During the months June, July, and August,
in 1944, 86.2% of the Eighth Army Air Force's casualties were due to flak.

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"The flak over the target was terrific;  very heavy and very accurate. 

  We lost one plane in our group.   It was burning as it headed toward 

  the earth.   We saw three chutes come out of it."

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The First and Third Air Divisions of the 8th Army Air Force operated B-17 Flying

Fortresses. The Second Air Division operated the B-24 Liberators.  The number of

B-24 Liberators lost in combat by the Second Air Division was 1,458.

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"As we peeled away from the target, I saw a B-24 blow up in mid-air.   

  No chutes came out of it."

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The phrase that American airmen used to describe the act of bailing out of a fall-
ing war plane was "Hit the silk(s)."   American parachutes were made of silk, and
a number of wedding gowns were made from American parachutes.

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"We were ready to bail out when the pilot finally stabilized things."

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A bombing run that encountered very little enemy resistance was called "a milk
run."   However, milk runs were not worthless. Some of them inflicted pivotal
damage upon the Nazi War Machine.

         "Our target for today was a buzz bomb site in the Pas-de-Calais

            area.   This mission, I believe, has been the easiest one so far.

            The bombing was visual, and the target was well smashed." ...
 

None the less, one crew's
milk run was another crew's 
disaster.

"While going in, a flak gun 
at the Siegfried Line shot 
down one of our planes."

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Shortly after the Liberation of Paris, the Second Air Division delivered tons of
food to Orleans, France.   These flights were called "grocery runs."   They were
were also called mercy missions.

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"We saw many, many tanks and vehicles along the roads and in the fields, 
  all wrecked and burnt.   I must have seen at least a million bomb craters 
  and foxholes.  I saw a lot of wrecked planes.  Dead cows and horses were 
  laying in the fields.    There was evidence of a battle everywhere along 

  our route."

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Bomber crewmen called fighter pilots "little buddies."

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"As we were falling back (out of formation), fighter escorts stayed 

  with us despite the heavy flak and German interceptors."

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Marshaling yards, (repeatedly mentioned throughout the missions log), were railway

staging centers through which Nazi ordnance, supplies, and troops were transported.

Some of them were heavily guarded by Nazi flak guns.

Marshaling yards were so strategically important that the allied strategy, leading up

to D-day, was that of bombing German marshaling yards.   This was done, in order

to prevent the Nazis from being able to quickly send reinforcements to Normandy

Beach.

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"The railroad cars at the marshaling yards were a mass of wreckage."

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The I.P., also mentioned throughout the missions log, was the Initial Point.  It was

the spot in the sky where a mission's bombing phase began.   This was the coordi-

nate where each remaining bomber crew was to lock in on the target and fly in a

straight line, making neither turns nor evasive maneuvers until its bomb load was

released.   This phase was one in which American bomber crews were extremely

vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire.

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"We flew to the I.P. and got some more flak.   As we were making our

   bombing run, from the I.P. to the target, we got even more flak.   We 

   released our bombs on the target and they were still shooting at us."

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Individual crews would have an engine shot out over the target more than one.

"We lost altitude so fast that we made for the nearest level strip."

The Initial Point was usually five minutes from the target.

"The flak was really heavy all the way from the IP to the target, 

and even past the target.   I was sweating it out, because a four

gun enemy battery was barely missing our left wing."

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The Ruhr Valley was called Flak Valley by American airmen, on account of the
number of flak guns in the region.

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"Long before we dropped the bombs, (though after the I.P.), flak 

  was hitting all around us.  We dropped the bombs and made a left-

  hand turn.   The flak was so close that I could see the red flashes 

  as it burst."

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Mentioned in a few of the mission log entries from where came the quotes appear-
ing on this page are readings such as "10/10 cloud cover." In as much, 10/10 stood
for 100% cloud cover, while 9/10 stood for 90% cloud cover, so on and so forth.

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"We had about 6/10 cloud cover all the way."

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The United States Army Air Force flew its missions during daylight hours in the Eur-

opean Theater of Operation, while the British RAF flew its missions at night.   An ex-

ception for American air units was the 801st/492nd Bomb Group. The airmen who

served in that bomb group were known as the Carpetbaggers.

The Carpetbaggers included American airmen who flew behind enemy lines at night,

delivering supplies to resistance forces, evacuating downed allied airmen, scattering

leaflets throughout the night sky, and transporting allied spies.   The Carpetbaggers

even delivered skis and sleighs to Norwegian resistance forces.

The Carpetbaggers had a clandestine airfield in Ain, France.

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The C-1 auto-pilot would be activated as soon as a crew entered into the bombing

phase of a mission.   It was during the actual bombing phase when the bombardier

would assume complete command of the bomber.  Bombardiers were the ones hit

the most often by flak, along with navigators.  In fact, before the bombing phase of

a mission, the bombardier would be in charge of the nose gun.

The instrument used by bombardiers by 1944,  whenever radio-guided Pathfinder

Force Technology (P.F.F.) was not present, was the Norden Bombsight.   The

Norden Bombsight was an analog computer comprised of gyros, gears, mirrors,

bubble levels, and a small telescope.

Having replaced the Sperry S-1 Bombsight in 1943, it was preferable to P.F.F.

technology.   It was even preferable to the rarely used Azon radioguided bombs.

In fact, updated versions of the Norden Bombsight were used in Korea and Vi-

etnam.

     "Our target for today was a German airfield at Laon, France.

              The bombing was visual and results looked good."

In the event that a bomber began to fall out of the sky, it was the bombardier's duty

to destroy the Norden Bombsite before he bailed out, if of course, the bomber were

equipped with one.

The bombsight's necessity consisted in the fact that a degree of bombing accuracy

was needed by the 8th Army Air Force in Europe, due to the nature of the targets

assigned to it.

                                 "Our target was a concentration

                                    of enemy stronghold positions

                                  about three miles west of St. Lo." ...

                                  ... "enemy troops were about

                                       1,500 yds from our troops." ...

                       ... "The Field Artillery signaled us with flares.

                          There were also white markers on the ground

                         to direct us in the air.   The targets were all hit."

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The previous quotes came from an airman's account of the July 25, 1944 bombing

of the Panzer Lehr Division near St. Lo, France.   Known as Operation Cobra, the

mission's outcome marked the breakout of allied ground forces from their coastal

confinements.   In fact, the successful outcome of Operation Cobra marked the be-

ginning of Germany's retreat from France.  Ironically, after the successful air raid,

allied ground force moved south and than west, before moving east, to Germany.

The day when the Panzer Lehr Division was decimated by the Eighth and Ninth

Army Air Forces was the day when Nazi troops learned that Germany's heavy

armored divisions were as vulnerable to America's bombers and attack aircraft

as cardboard boxes are vulnerable to sledge hammers.

This reality was evident on D-day, when medium sized B-26 Marauders of the 9th

Army Air Force destroyed a number of German tanks during tactical support mis-

sions.

General Omar Bradley was quoted as having said that Operation Cobra "struck a 

more deadly blow than any of us dared imagine."  A remarkable aspect of the

St. Lo Air Raid was that 20 lb fragmentation bombs, 100 lb demolition bombs, and

260 lb fragmentation bombs were all that were taken into battle by the 8th Army Air

Force, in order to decimate a Nazi armored division.

Neither the 2,000 lb demolition bomb, nor the 1,000 lb demolition bomb, nor even

the 500 lb incendiary bomb made an appearance at St. Lo, on July 25.  In fact, the

napalm incendiary bomb which made its debut eight days prior, during a P-38 raid

over France, was not used at St. Lo, either.

On July 25, a portion of the 8th Army Air Force bomber crews carried 20 lb frag-

mentation bombs @ 240 bombs per bomber, while other ones were equipped with

100 lb demolition bombs @ 38 bombs per bomber, while yet other crews went to

St. Lo with a load of 260 lb fragmentation bombs @ 20 bombs per bomber.

During Operation Cobra, the Panzer Lehr Division was more than fragged.  It had

troops who were literally vaporized.  The impact of the July 25th raid was recount-

ed by attending Nazi officer, Lieutenant-General Fritz Bayerlein.  The following was

posted at the introduction of this expose.  It's posted here again, for the reader's con-

venience.  Within his account is the phrase, "heavy bombs."   This refers to the bomb

loads that were dropped from each heavy bomber, as opposed to the weight of the

individual bombs themselves:

"The entrenched infantry was either smashed by the heavy bombs while 
  in their foxholes and dugouts or else they were killed and buried by the 
  blast.   Infantry and artillery positions were blown up.  The bombed-out
  area was entirely transformed into a field covered with craters, where no 
  human was left alive.   Tanks and guns were destroyed and overturned, 
  unable to be recovered, because all roads and passages were blocked."

General Bayerlein also wrote:

"The shock effect was nearly as strong the physical effect" ... "Some of the 
  men got crazy and were unable to carry out anything.   I was personally in 
  the center of the bombardment and could experience the tremendous effect.   
  For me, one who, during this war, was at every theater of operation, and 
  who had been assigned to the places of the main efforts,  this was the worst 

  thing I ever saw."

Bayerlein summarized the aftermath in the following way:

"My front lines looked like the face of the moon, and at least 70% 

  of my troops were out of action - dead, wounded, crazed, or numb."

The July 25th bombing raid proved erroneous the documentary makers' claim that

the allied invasion force of June 1944 would have been pushed back into the Eng-

lish Channel if all available Panzer divisions had immediately responded to Nor-
mandy Beach.   The truth is that Nazi armored units would have been decimated
near the Normandy shoreline the same way in which the Panzer Lehr Division
was decimated near the town of St. Lo.  

If the Panzer tanks started rolling on that day, the 8th Army Air Force would have

been flying a double shift, along with the tactical Ninth AAF which probably would

have responded to the scene much quicker than the 8th AAF.  Now, the morning

of June 6th was accompanied by low cloud cover and the inability to perform sight

bombing.   However, the skies began to clear in the afternoon.   In addition, the re-

peated bombing of Nazi marshaling yards prior to D-day prevented the rapid de-

ployment of Nazi infantry divisions to the west coast of France.  The Nazis often

traveled by rail.  The 8th Army Air Force kept demolishing its travel routes.

That which the 8th Army Air Force did not have the technology to decimate were

the concrete-reinforced gun positions known as pillboxes and the accompanying

bunkers that were lined along the French coastline.

The number of American troops killed by friendly fire during the St. Lo Raid was

111.   The number of American troops injured by friendly fire during the same raid

was 490.   Forty-two B-26 Marauders of the 9th Army Air Force "short bombed."

This resulted in the 30th Infantry Division sustaining 64 soldiers being killed in ac-

tion, 60 ending up missing in action (presumed to be buried under the blasts), and

374 gettingwounded.   If that hadn't happened, friendly fire casualties would have

been 47 killed and 126 wounded, in unintentional collateral damage.

During the St. Lo Air Raid, Nazi German anti-craft batteries fired upon oncoming

American bomb groups with accuracy.  

                        "The flak was rather intense and accurate.

                         Our right wing ship went down in flames."

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Concerning the bombing of Dresden, it was the 8th Army Air Force's First Air Di-
vision who participated in that bombing, and even at that, the participating Ameri-
can bomb groups only bombed the Dresden rail system.   The RAF was the entity
who deliberately bombed civilian targets as a matter of policy, and the Americans
and British conducted their own operations independent of each other.  The 1st Air
Division's bombing of the Dresden rail system had the strategic effect of impeding
the Nazis from sending reinforcements to the Eastern Front.

Furthermore, the Feuersturm of Hamburg (known as Operation Gomorrah and the

Hiroshima of Germany) took place during the summer of 1943.   It was RAF night

raids which placed that time span in infamy, as it was a deliberate act of revenge for

the bombing of London.

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In 1944, Strategic Bombing, as opposed to Area Bombing, was the operative mode

of the Eighth Army Air Force so much so that, during the same year, its name was

changed to the U.S. Strategic Air Forces (USSAF).  The carpet bombing of civilian

areas was NOT the assigned objective of the 8th Army Air Force.  Rather, the de-

struction of the Nazi War Machine was.  This included military hardware in produc-

tion and in the field, as well as transportation routes, storage areas, airfields, and

enemy troop strong points such as the Nazi gun positions in Metz, France.

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"Our target for today was a Heinkel aircraft plant in Rostock, Germany.  
  The plant was one of the largest in Germany, but now it is no more.  Our 
  target was previously hit, but more damage needed to be done to it.   We 
  smashed the target flat this time.   The bombing was visual, and I could 
  see the bombs hit, blowing the place sky high. "

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The official phrase, Precision Bombing, was employed in Europe by United States

bomber command, in order to define the targets as being precisely designated and
precisely limited to those of military significance.   The phrase was intended to con-
trast Area Bombing, the practice employed by RAF bomber command by which en-
tire civilian areas were targeted and indiscriminately bombed.

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American squadrons were also given secondary and tertiary targets before each

bombing mission, along with primary target and targets of opportunity. 

"... we went to our secondary target, which was a chemical and high ex-
  plosives plant at Clausthal-Zellerfeld. We dropped our bombs and then 
  circled the target, to see what we did.   By the looks of the place, it isn't 
  any good to the Germans anymore.  The target was blazing, as smoke was 
  coming up to about 5,000 to 6,000 feet."

The documentary makers' claim that a thousand bombers would be sent to the same

one bombing target per mission is a falsehood.  The truth is that 300 to 1,500 bomb-

ers would be sent out to bomb four, eight, twelve, eighteen or so targets during the

same one outing.   Designated targets would be in the same general geographic re-

gion, and the various bomb groups would eventually separate into a number of dif-

ferent formations en route to the multiple targets.

There were occasions where only 4 to 13 bombers would attack an individual target.

There were even instances when a solitary bomber attacked a solitary target of op-

portunity.   However, the general trend was that the typical Nazi target was attacked

by 1 to 300 bombers, with 25 to 175 being the more frequently observed numerical

range, if not the exact statistical median.   It was even more common for 55 to 135

American bombers to attack a primary target.

                    "There were about 50 bombers at our target."

An exception was the day when the Leuna synthetic oil refinery at Merseberg was

attacked by 383 bombers during one raid and then 210 bombers later in the same

day.   There were other exceptions.  Only on rare occasion would a thousand or

more bombers be sent to one target.  The St. Lo Raid was one example, and even

at that, it was a joint effort between the Tactical 9th Army Air Force and the stra-

tegic 8th Army Air Force.

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The October 1944 attack on Hamm, Germany, was the exception to the precision

bombing rule, even though the first two Autumn raids on Hamm targeted its mar-
shaling yards.  The mission which designated all of Hamm as the primary target
coincided with the recently failed Operation Market Garden which was once por-
trayed on Screen in, A Bridge Too Far, and in the TV serial, A Band  of Brothers.

   - The first autumn mission to Hamm occurred the day after the British

     1st Airborne Division in Holland was ordered to withdraw across the

     Rhine. In fact, takeoff time was a few hours after Operation Market

     Garden was officially declared halted. This was Tuesday, September

     26, 1944. 
                    "Our target for today was one of Germany's larg-

                      est rail centers that support troops in Holland."

  - There was a vested interest in shielding allied troops in Holland from

     a Nazi counteroffensive which would have had its supply line anchored

     at the Hamm marshaling yards. There was also a vested interest in safe-

    guarding Dutch Resistance personnel from Nazi retaliation.   There was

    the additional need to prevent the Germans from turning the western bor-

    der of Holland into a scaled ver ion of the Atlantic Wall (or a replica of

    the Siegfried Line).   In light of this, the allies were in need of establish-

    ing strongholds in the Holland that they invaded ten days prior. 

             "We were to hit the rail depot at the rail center of 

               Hamm, Germany.   The whole 8th Army Air Corps 

               was bombing in this area today."

 - The second autumn mission to Hamm occurred four days after the first

    mission, on September 30th.   Then, on the following Monday, Hamm's

    ability to export the Nazi War Machine to Holland was significantly dis-

    rupted.

 - The bombing mission was successful enough to enable the 1st Canadian

   Army to maintain a position near Groesbeek, Holland.   This resulted in

   the Operation Veritable that began in February 1945.

          "This is the largest rail center in Germany, and I don't 

            think that we will have to go back there again.  I could 

            see the bombs hit right into the target."

 - Crews of the 578th Bomb Group had already been briefed for a mission
    to Stuttgart on the morning of the Second of October. They then found
    themselves in a briefing room once again, being briefed on the Hamm mis-
    sion shortly before takeoff time. Thus, there was a sense of urgency in the
    third Hamm mission, as opposed to a premeditated plan.

         "After we peeled away from the target, I saw three more

           groups drop their bombs.   They smashed Hamm flat."

 - The Hamm marshaling yards were attacked before the three autumn raids,

    during the end of summer, on the 19th of September.  This occurred while

    Operation Market Garden was still in progress.  Hamm's marshaling yards

    would then be attacked again, on November 26, 1944.   But, the mission

    which made all of Hamm the primary target was October 2, 1944.

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As was previously mentioned, the RAF engaged in Area Bombing as a matter of

policy.   British high command asserted that destroying German civilian neighbor-

hoods would destroy the German workforce and the Nazis' ability to manufacture

its weaponry.  In fact, Winston Churchill ordered the RAF to perform "terror raids"

upon civilian populations.

British high command was proven wrong.   History showed that Area Bombing did

not destroy the Nazi war industry.   Nor did it demoralize Germany to the point of

surrendering.   If anything, the bombing of civilian venues inspires an enemy to fight

even more vehemently against you with the military hardware that was untouched

while you were bombing his civilian neighborhoods.

The Nazi's defeat at Leningrad was attributed to the fact that civilian venues through-

out that city were intentionally bombed by the Luftwaffe, giving Russian snipers free

reign throughout a fortress of rubble.

The systematic bombing of civilian areas is strategically detrimental, as well as a
crime against humanity.   The bombing of merely one truck assembly plant did more
to defeat the Nazis than did the killing of a multitude of German civilians.

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"Our target was a truck plant in Cologne, Germany.   This was a very im-

  portant mission, because the Germans were using the trucks to carry sup-
  plies to the front lines at Aachen and other places."

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On occasion, an American bomber squadron would make the error of missing its
assigned target and then hitting a Swiss town or a German municipality.

There were varying degrees of collateral damage for almost any bombing raid that

did not target a submarine bullpen, a Nazi airfield, a remote railway viaduct, a buzz

bomb site, or a recessed gun position.   The amount of collateral damage depend-

ed on a few variables, including the target's proximity to civilian areas, the percen-

tage of cloud cover, the intensity of flak being fired near the target, the flammable

nature of the target, the year in which the air raid took place, and the type of radio

guidance system or bombsight used in the bombing.

Even at that, there were times when the Eighth Army Air Force declined to release

its bombs over Nazi-held territory, due to the presence of too much cloud cover

and the accompanying inability to locate a specific target.

Also keep in mind that a falling American airship (especially one that had not yet

released its bomb load), as well as a plummeting fighter plane, had the potential to

cause collateral damage, also.

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In the European Theater of Operation, there were American bomber crews who be-

came the victims of friendly fire while in the air.

"We lost two ships in our group due

to our own bombs dropping on them."

Fatal bomber accidents were not limited to training venues.   There was the tragedy

of American bombers collidsinf into each other upon their return to Britain, as well

as cases of bombers being lost in the English Channel. 

"As we got back to our base, two of the planes in our group  crashed into 
  each other and blew up.   It was an unbelievable sight.  I saw the planes 
  explode right off our left wing and then hit the ground.   No one got out 
  alive.   The weather was plenty rough when coming in.   We lost another 
  plane in the channel."

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The Nazis acquired radar technology and used it in its anti-aircraft tactics.  The ra-

dar countermeasure employed by the Americans was that of dispersing bundles of

aluminized paper strips throughout the sky.   Known as chaff, the strips were dis-

persed through trap doors by each crew's waist gunners.

The strips served the function of decoys, causing multiple returns to appear on an

enemy's radar screens.  Despite this countermeasure, American bombers were still

being shot down over Nazi airspace, while a significant number of them were re-

turning to England noticeably shot-up.

                 "About 40 bombers were lost.   I now know how a duck

                 feels during hunting season.  One ship in our group was

                 lost.   Plenty of them were pretty well shot up."

Even after the allied invasion of France and the establishment of allied air superior-

ity, American airmen continued to be in peril throughout parts of the European skies.

As an initial example,  three hundred and seventy-three B-24 liberators were sent to

bomb Nazi German oil refineries and aircraft assembly plants thirty-two days after

D-day.   One hundred and twenty-seven of the bombers returned to England with

battle damage, while thirty-seven of them never returned.  Six U.S. fighter planes

were also lost in combat. 
                                          "The flak was heavy and accurate.

                                               Also, plenty of enemy fighters;

                                          (JU-88, Me-109, Me-410, FW-190.)"

As another example, the July 12, 1944 mission to Munich resulted in battle damage

being inflicted upon 301 heavy bombers.  Twenty-six of the bombers were shot

down over the target.  The target was the Munich marshaling yards.

                             "The mission was long and tiresome."

The tragic Kassel Mission occurred 16 weeks after D-day, on September 27, 1944.

Twenty-five of the thirty-five participating airships of the 445th Bomb Group were

shot down in a 15 minute time span.  The intended target was a Tiger Tank factory. 

                           "This bomber group's losses were heavy

                                in spite of heavy fighter support."

As a final example, on the last day of November, in 1944, 29 heavy bombers were

shot down, while 612 other ones sustained battle damage while in Nazi airspace, at-

tacking four synthetic oil refineries, two marshaling yards, and several targets of op-

portunity.

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During their grocery runs to Orleans, American bombers crews did not travel to 

French airports with full crews.

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"Only the pilot, co-pilot, navigator, engineer, and radio operator were on 
  board.   I don't know what we would have done if we had been attacked 
  by fighters.   We were so low that we could see the French people wave 
  at us.   Also a few GIs."

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Even though Switzerland was a neutral nation throughout World War II, the Swiss
captured and interned American aviators who bailed out over Switzerland.   Even
though the America prisoners of war were interned at Swiss ski resorts they were
subject to marginal diets of 1,500 calories daily and the gnaw of very poorly heat-
ed quarters.   None the less, Switzerland proved to be a lifesaver for over a 1,700
American aviators.

The United States government received hotel bills from the Swiss, on account

of American airmen interned at the Swiss ski lodges.  In addition, over 100,000
soldiers of various nations and branches of service made their ways to Switzer-
land, along with 200,000+ civilian refugees.

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"Gerry really had our number.   I didn't see any ships go down, but one 
  crew in our barracks was shot up so badly that it had to go to Switzer-
  land."

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If a bomber crew failed to drop its bomb load on a Nazi target during a mission, yet
flew through airspace under attack by enemy flak guns or fighter planes, it would still
receive credit for having performed a combat mission.

_____________________________________________________________________ 

The United States Air Force did not become an independent branch of the American
military until 1947.   Until then, it operated under United States Army command.   It
originally carried the title, Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Signal Corps, followed
chronologically by Aviation Section  (of the Signal Corps), the Division of Military
Aeronautics, and the U.S. Army Air Service.   Then, in 1926, congress changed its
name to the United States Army Air Corps.

In 1941, the United States Army Air Force was established, and the Office of the

Chief of the Army Air Corps was disbanded.   However, throughout World War II,

the phrase Army Air Corps was often used when speaking of the newly formed Ar-

my Air Force.   This was done even by the press and government officials, as well

as by members of the Army Air Force. 

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The Eighth Army Air Force was founded in 1942, and was originally called VIII

Bomber Command.   Its name was then changed to the U.S. Strategic Air Forces,

during February of 1944.   However, consecutive years of familiarity with the phrase,

Army Air Corps, even at the recruiting office, is the reason why the USSAF was of-

ten referred to as the 8th Army Air Corps, even by its own airmen.

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"Our group did not lose any planes, but the 8th Army Air Corps lost 51 
  heavy bombers. "

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The airmen saw things as scenic as the White Cliffs of Dover and "the peaks of the
Alps protruding through the clouds."   This is contrasted by the sight of airships go-
ing down in balls of fire, as well as the devastation that was seen in France, during
the grocery runs which occurred after the Liberation of Paris.  The Eighth Army Air
Force, in traveling behind enemy lines, was pivotal in the Liberation of France, the
Netherlands, and Belgium.

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"When we left the target, we could see the peaks of the Alps protruding

 through the clouds.   They looked very pretty, but I did not want to hang

 around and look at them. "

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For more on an American daylight crew's tour of duty in Nazi airspace, 
refer to the following:

http://themighty8th.blogspot.com/2013/07/combat-missions-1-to-9.html

http://themighty8th.blogspot.com/2013/07/combat-missions-10-to-18.html

http://themighty8th.blogspot.com/2013/07/orleans-france.html

http://themighty8th.blogspot.com/2013/07/combat-missions-19-to-27.html

KGB Defector gave precise blueprint of today's propagandists, 40 years ago.

It were as if he made a detailed prophecy of today ... or at the least ... a long-term game plan that is still being observed by the faithful devotees of Idealogical Subversion & the Overthrow of all natural structures of human existence.  

Above:  a 1965 Watts Riot Report.  Rioting has re-emerged in America throughout the decades.  Such violence was regarded as Phase 3 of the Soviet Communists' cyclical phase of Idealogical Subversion.  It were as if a conductor ... or a succession of conductors ... were repeatingly directing the Subversion Symphony on the American streets, all along.  Very Coincidential.

Idealogical Subversion.  A definitive synonym of it would be Mass Brain Washing.

The KGB:  Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti ... Russia's Committee for State Security.  

                   It was replaced in 1991 with Russia's Federal Security Service

 

       CNN:  A brainwashing network that presents life in a false light, thereby inciting 

                  violence, such as at Minneapolis and Kenosha.  It has edited out the truth.

                  'tis operated by a small percentage of humanity who is out of touch with 

                  the common citizen and the venues of the common man, woman, & child.

                  Is obsessed with promoting abortion on demand, in a psychopathic degree.

 MSNBC:  A more arrogant & dictatorial insult to the intelligence of the common-

                  sensed citizen.  It has suppressed exculpatory evidence and edited out

                  the truth.  It's run by a very small percentage of humanity who is out 

                  of  touch with the common citizen.  It's psychopathically obsessed with

                  promoting abortion on demand, in using very rare antecdotes as if they 

                  were common occurrences during pregnancy.  A network of mockers.

       ABC: A powerplay of thought control.  Freedom of speech has been suppressed 

                 on air there.  'tis controlled by a small cadre of humanity out of touch with

                 the daily lifestyles of the common citizen.  Has been supportive  of abortion

                 on demand, to the point of literally screaming at a certain pro-life celebrity.   

                 It has suppressed exculpatory evidence and edited out the truth, just like CNN.

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Enter one Yuri Aleksandovich Bezmenov, alias Tomas David Schuman who died in 1993.  He was a member of the Novosti Press Agency, while being assigned to a KGB mission in New Delhi.  After all, he was an expert in Indian culture.  His job was to "plant propaganda."

In February of 1970, while in India, he defected to Athens Greece.  He started the defection dressed as a 1960s hippie, blending in with real hippies.

Yuri outlined the four stages of Idealogical Subversion by which you conquer an enemy.  Ever so coincidently, all of which he described 40 years ago has thus far become reality in the United States, as if he were a prophet predicting America's future.

According to Yuri in 1984,  "The time bomb is ticking." 

     

                                                              and

"The highest art of warfare is to not fight at all ... but to subvert anything of value in the country of your enemy until such time when the perception of reality of your enemy is screwed up to such an extent  that he does not perceive you as an enemy ... and that your system ... your civilization ... and your four ambitions (four stages of idealogical subversion) look to your enemy as an alternative ... if not desirable."

In addition, according to Yuri, subversion consists in four periods, timewise.   

[1] Demoralization, a 15 to 20 year process.  It's the time sufficient enough to educate one generation of students or children.  It consists in infiltrating those areas where public opinion is shaped.  Demoralization sounds a lot like brain washing an entire generation.

[2] Destabilization of the Economy, Foreign Relations, and Defense Systems.  The sleepers become the leaders.

[3] Crisis:  Changing power structures and the economy via violence.  It was said that it takes about six weeks to bring a nation to a stage of crisis.

[4] Normalization.  The abnormal is made the new norm.  Note:  The violent stages come in cycles.  

There are six areas of influence to be infiltrated:  I} Religion  II} the educational system  III} "social life administration," including media  IV} the Law Enforcemnent System  V} the Military  VI} Labor & Employer Relations.

In re:  I} Slowly erode religious dogma and take people away from the original purpose of religion which happens to be getting in touch with the Supreme Being.  Next, replace real religions with fake ones.  

In re: II} Dissuade people from learning anything constructive and pragmatic.  Get people to attend ridiculous-sounding classes that are a vain & empty waste of time.

In re: III} Replace traditionally established institutions with fake organizations.  Take away from people i} initative and ii} a sense of responsibility.  Separate people from naturally established links and replace the links with artificial & bureaucratically controlled bodies.  

Instead of society being in direct contact with elected officials and those appointed by elected officials, let those unelected people infiltrate and influence society.  In as much, who elected the media newscasters, commentators, talk show hosts, editors, and script writers of today?  

The goal is to replace society with bureaucracy.  In as much, the true insurrection is being done by ... the Mainstream Media who, today, tells you what to think ... the media who tells you who is to be cancelled ... cut-off ... rejected ... declared a denier.  It consists in people put into positions of influence who had NEITHER qualifications NOR the will of the People ... NOR the consent of the People.  

In this scenario, the People are all wrong and must listen only to the enlightened ones ... aka the awakened ones.  But of course, the usurpers act as if the People are so stupid that no one in their ranks can pronounce the word, "awakened."  So, they repetitively say, "woke," when announcing to you that they are the enlightened ones and your are not.

In re: IV} Make the police officers appear to be dumb, rude, and abusive, as well as so deadly that they must be removed from society.

In re: V}  The same as IV, in making the Pentagon generals and their allies look like maniacs.

In re: VI}  The Economy is such that everyone in society is interdependent upon each other.  This means that the economy has a dominoes effect.  Thus, when there is a dissatisfied rank of workers, flood the media with "headlined" ... "one-line" ... class struggle propaganda.

You are not to stop an enemy.  Rather, you are to help him go in the direction you want him to go.  You want to help your enemy destroy himself.

Below are videos of Yuri Bezmenov.  They are more enlightening than they are educational.  The striking thing about them is that they sound more like prophecy for today than a general blueprint for any time in history.

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Directly below:  Part of a 1984 interview with Yuri.   Yuri explains Idealogical Subversion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr5sTGxMUdo

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Directly Below:  Another part of the interview.  Mention is made in the video's description of "Mitrokhin."  This refers to Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin.  He defected in 1992 and died in 2004.  He was a major archivist for the Soviet Union's Foreign Intelligence Services.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfgY8v1a7nw&t=129s

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Directly below:  Yet another part of the 1984 interview where Yuri mentions whom he was to recruit, who was the useful idiot ... and who was targeted for "execution."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvXwuZ-bok

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Below is a 1983 classroom lecture, by Yuri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FElIhOh_KI

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Below:  Yuri's mention of certain American useful idiots who influence other Americans.  America's acceptance of influencers was based on naivity, and it helped with the Demoralization of the American culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gJYxM6cMA

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Below:  Yuri explained what he actually did for the KGB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsM1QNeGlK4

Putting an end to the very Fictional 9/11 U.S. gov conspiracy accusations

For the record,  I'm in construction and I am
very familiar with the power of gravity.  I
was almost killed in a trench wall collapse.
Later, I knew that a certain brick wall was
about to explode, and I had about ten se-
conds to run to safety.  Then ... kaboom.
The World Trade Towers succumbed to
gravity and weakened A36 steel.  Period.

I have a lot to do and have very little time at the moment.  So, perhaps one can start
with the following video and learn how common-sensed and predictable was the
collapse of WTC Building #7.  This can spare you from being an embarrassment
to your friends and family.  There's more to add, in order to show you that there
was no controlled implosion, otherwise known as RDX (Thermite) demolition.
The evils of America are in front of everyone's face.  You don't have to look for
darkroom conspiracies.

By the way, concerning the claim that no fire can severe steel beams, uhhhhhhm
we used a torch in government contract work to sever A36 steel beams, here in

Pittsburgh, the former capital of steel.  First is what made the iron ore mix liquid

steel, able to be formed into beams, columns, and reinforcing rods, for starters. 

It's amzaing how incrdible stupid Hollywoods stars were and still are.

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSq663m0G8

In January of 2014, while I was in Florida, I spoke with a retired carpenter who did
work on the NYC World Trade Towers in the 1970s.  It's confirmed.  Both towers
were made from weaker-than-needed material, and the design was something much
to be desired.

The carpenter spoke from memory and correctly described the design of the towers
as was published in print ... as I remember reading of it.  For example, he mentioned 

the notably small windows on the outer walls of the towers, as well as the fact that the 

elevators & stairwells were in the center of the buildings.  

He also mentioned how narrow the hallways were, in relation to the width of each tower.  

So, this man was clearly credible & on target.

The retired carpenter also stated that the Trade Towers weren't intended to be any type
of architectural masterpiece, on account of the fact that the Port Authority was the de-
signer and developer of the project.  He even went as far as satirically saying that the
Trade Towers were of such a sophomoric design that it was a surprise that the Towers
didn't collapse sooner than they did.  He, all by himself, had enough fire power in his
narration to debunk all conspiracy theories attached to the fall of the World Trade Ctr
Towers.
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Perhaps you know the psychosis:  It's the accusation that the United States government
purposely detonated the World Trade Center towers, as an excuse to invade Bin Laden's
cave in Afghanistan, and even Iraq, in an eventual chase for fantasy WMDs.  Well, the
outlay of stats on the Trade Towers illustrate that the previously mentioned accusation
is a fallacy of the highest degree.  In addition, the United States government would not
sabotage it's own war headquarters in the process, namely the Pentagon.

The World Trade Center theory of an American government demolition conspiracy is
the result of prolonged distrust of a government which repeatedly lied to its citizens
throughout a time span ranging from:  the 1950s Operation Paper Clip days, to the
1950s McCarthysm days, to the Vietnam days, the Agent Orange days, the Water-
gate days, the Iran/Contra days, the Savings & Loans crisis days, the Iraq WMD
fraud, along with the Mortgage Crisis and the cause of, the Great Recession.

The WTC theory is merely a sign of our tabloid times.  It's also a sign of Americans
being so bored with life that they exhilarate themselves by adhering to melodramatic
fiction, such as was the case with the Mayan calendar scare of 2012.

Americans need to deep-six their conspiracy theories and composite paranoia.  That
which needs to be addressed are the injustices blatantly in front of everyone's face.
The borderline psychotic conspiracy theories that you hear on the all night coast to
coast tin foil hat show are nothing more than the diversionary tactics which keep
humanity from righting the wrongs sitting directly in front of mankind.  They are
campfire ghost stories, and the radio show is so popular, because everything else
on nighttime talk radio is so incredibly boring.  For now, however, people need to
understand the following things about each of the two World Trade Center towers
which actually did pancake in September of 2001: 

The Anatomy of the Trade Towers

The core of each tower was essentially hollow, in that the cores housed the elevators
and stairwells of the towers.  There was no interior wall and no corner-to-corner brac-
ing involved.  The main structure of each tower was a hollow tube comprising close-
ly spaced steel perimeter columns.  The floor trusses were supported by the columns,
and such a design is why the towers fell as they did.  The towers fell from the top
downward.  Demolition involves taking out the supporting structures near and at
the ground floor level.  Thus, there was NO demolition involved on 9/11/01.

In combination, the floor trusses and perimeter columns of the towers formed a steel
lattice which acted as a wind brace, thereby keeping the central core unaffected by any
wind.  Plus, the central core was NOT a part of the main structural system.  The job of
the central core was to support the gravity load imposed upon the building, all the while
supporting the elevator system of each building.  Each system comprised more than 100
elevators per tower.  Incidentally, the outer face of each tower handled horizontal stress.
This translates into handling the wind sheer.

The Trade Towers were extremely light weight, in comparison to their heights which
vertically spanned slightly more than 1,360 feet (415 meters.)   Of each tower's  110
stories, six of them (per tower) were underground.  Each tower was built on landfill.
The bed rock existed 65 feet below ground level.  None the less, a semispherical ex-
cavation was performed, followed by coating the bowl-like hole with a slurry contain-
ing bentonite clay.  The clay's purpose was to keep the Hudson River out of the towers.
However, the danger wasn't going to come from the river.  It would come from the sky.

The reason why the debris of two 110 story buildings comprised a height equivalent
to a few stories was because of the existence of spacious air between the light weight
materials.  According to journalist Jackie Craven, the NYC Trade Towers were 95%
air.

Now, the outer box was 208 x 208 feet (63 x 63 meters.)   On two parallel sides of
the 208 feet span was 120 feet of open plan office space.  On the other two parallel
sides of the towers were 70 feet of open office space, thereby illustrating the hollow
tubular nature of the tower.   In fact, the inner core measured 135 x 87 ft.

Concerning the hollow nature of the towers, the underground car park of each one
held a capacity of 2,000 automobiles, in spacious parking allotments thereof.  Yet,
amidst the spaciousness was 100,000 tons of steel constructed into each tower.

The steel beams of the outer face of the towers were 14 inches wide; 59 columns
per each of the four facades.  Between columns were 22 inch windows.  The win-
dow size was small, only because a principle structural engineer had a pronounced
fear of heights and said that the 22 inch span made a person feel safe in the towers.

In addition, each tower floor consisted in 4 inches of light concrete, placed upon a
33 inch thick prefabricated steel truss laid upon rubber dampers/padding.   In fact,
10,000 dampers were used per tower.  Dampers reduce the forces on a building by
reducing vibrations.

  The Four Most Important Four Things to Keep in Mind about the Trade Towers

- The design of the building was such that there would be NO outward buckling.  This
   is due to something known as a rigid diaphragm design.

- The floor trusses didn't fall first, when the Trade Towers collapsed.  Rather, trusses
   lost their fireproofing and absorbed a tremendous amount of heat, thereby pulling the
   columns inward.  This explains the absence of outward buckling when the towers fell
   straight downward.

- There was thousands of gallons of combustible jet fuel causing intense heat.  Keep in
   mind that the fuel capacity of the Boeing 747, depending on the model thereof, ranges
   from 48,445 to 52,410 U.S. gallons.

- If the jets didn't dislodge the nearby fireproofing, the towers would not have fallen.
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Let us review.  Certain individuals claim that members of the United States government
purposely flew remote-controlled jets into each World Trade Tower, and then detonated
the buildings, so as to have an excuse to invade Afghanistan and/or Iraq.  If this were the
case, then why would government members have a jet fly into American military head-
quarters, namely, the Pentagon?  If the government conspirators wanted to have an ex-
cuse to start a war, then why would they sabotage the one place needed to conduct the
war?

In addition, what was the purpose for the Shanksville crash, if all that was needed
was the downing of two skyscrapers in New York City?   In addition, there is cell
phone evidence that foreigners did hijack the four jetliners.  Or were those phone
calls a collective hoax, too?  Are the passengers who never came home living on a
remote island, as a part of this conjectured hoax?   Where are each of the missing
crew members?   In fact, how do people secretly wire two of the most populated
and frequented buildings in the world without anyone taking notice of the wiring?
How is it that no one tripped over the wiring, if wiring had been done shortly be-
fore September 11, 2001?

Republicans, in general, aren't smart enough to do what conspiracy theorists claimed
them to have done.  George Bush Jr wasn't even in the ball park when it came to bas-
ic common sense.  Cheney shoots his own friends.  Sarah Palin has been regarded as
an idiot by more than one person, and Ron Paul allowed a bogus conspiracy claim to
be posted on his site, showing that the absence of discernment and the lack of com-
mon sense actually is contagious.

John McCain is the one who presented Sarah Palin as a viable presidential replace-
ment, yet he never apologized for creating this Frankenstein.  She tested the waters
for a presidential campaign inconsiderate of the fact that, if Americans didn't want
her to be the Vice President, they surely don't want her to be the Commander-in-
Chief.

Then there's Rick Perry, the power predator who skewed his explanations, concern-
ing the less-than-inspiring statistics about the State of Texas.  Next comes Michele
Bachman who doesn't even know the difference between John Wayne and John
Wayne Gacy.

Now, men of Arabic and anti-christian persuasion attempted to topple one of the
Trade Towers in 1993, because they believed that the effort to destroy said tower
was a holy act that would win for them favor from the Eternal God.  In fact, one
of the failed saboteurs, while being taken away, expressly said that those towers
were going to eventually go down.   Thus, the logical conclusion is that an anti-
American Arabian faction busied itself with taking down those towers, for reli-
gious purposes.  In reality however, it was nothing more than the mass murder
of unarmed civilians.

The 2001 suicide attacks were also meant to frighten people into joining the attack-
er's religion.  The attacks were an act of duress.  An act of intimidation.  Well, the
Nazi regime tried to intimidate other nations into succumbing to its will.  The end
result was that American, Canadian, Russian, British, Norwegian, Polish, Dutch,
Belgian, and French citizens went after the Nazis until the Nazis were no more.

Intimidation is a fatal policy.  You don't want people to be afraid of you.  You want
them to love you.  God made humanity to love, as its ultimate purpose.  In fact, it's
not natural to kill your own kind.  None the less, thousands of unarmed civilians
were killed on September 11, 2001 in the name of God.  The result was that the
Name of God, the Giver of Life, was being presented as the author of hijacking
& death.

Most importantly, the Trade Towers both pancaked, though at different time seg-
ments.   This means that they collapsed from the top downward.  There is no de-
nying this observation.  In demolition, the bottom of the structure is taken out,
and the building succumbs to the laws of gravity, generally speaking.  It's more
detailed than that, of course.  The bottom line is that the Trade Towers weren't
part of a demolition plot of U.S. government officials looking for an excuse to
get America into a war.  There were too many witnesses at the Trade Towers.
Excuses to go to war include remote places that have little to no onlookers.

In the phenomenon of pancaking, only one floor is needed to collapse as a result
of incendiary heat melting the adjacent steel girder frame ... in order for the dom-
inoes to fall.  The heat-severed floor and all floors above it then comprised the
weight that came crashing down on the one floor below.  The additional floor's
weight, along with the weight of the floors above it, crush the next floor.  The
process continues, and the building falls quickly.

Now, proof that there was NO government demolition job on the Trade Towers
consists in the fact that there are survivors who were toward the bottom when the
collapsing started.  This means that there was NO detonated explosives near the
ground floor.   If there were an explosion, those survivors would have been dead
or notably wounded.

When a collapsing building reaches the ground, segments of the building buckle in-
to each other, meaning that there are always to be found open spaces at the bottom
of the collapsed building.  In any of those pockets can be survivors.   This was the
case with the Trade Tower collapse.  Humans in the pockets of WTC buildings were
not killed or wounded by explosions.  Therefore, there was no government conspira-
cy comprising demolition.

Concerning the surrounding buildings, think "trampoline effect."  Place a book or
other small item on one end of a bed and then jump on the other end.   Watch the
book or other small item leap.  It was a tremendous amount of weight which hit the
ground in Manhattan.   When weight so tremendous lands on land, something is go-
ing to be dislodged from its foundation.  Gravity will eventually win out and a per-
ipheral building or two will collapse.  If there were an incendiary flash seen coming
out of the window of an adjacent building, then why is that so surprising?   We live
in the age of electricity and natural gas.  

The claim that the government performed a demolition job on the Trade Towers is,
by far, the single most asinine theory ever.   Bush went into Iraq without having the
excuse of a building being sabotaged.  His excuse was Weapons of Indiscriminate
Destruction.  He called them "weapons of mass destruction."

Know that this text is being written by someone who does have a construction back-
ground, meaning that he learned how gravity works the hard way.  The same author
is a native of the former steel capital of Planet Earth.  His father was a research en-
gineer in the Pittsburgh steel industry who even taught him why the Titanic sheered
open the way it did.  In addition, the author of this text has a sibling who, as a com-
manding officer, was called out to Logan International Airport on 09-11-2001.  Fur-
thermore, the same author spoke with two retired intelligence specialists in 2011 on
a number of topics.  Guess what?   There actually were hijackers on 9-11 and the laws
of gravity are powerful things.   So too is the weight of a skyscraper.  Think of George
WMD Bush as an unconscionable opportunist after the fact, and not an ingenious con-
spirator before the fact.

The Trade Towers were taken down by fanatics who thought that they would enjoy
paradise after murdering thousands of unarmed civilians.   However, you only get in
the afterlife what you give in this life.   If you give people nightmarish Hell scenarios,
your eternal destiny will be the nightmarish Hell scenario that you gave to others.  In
retrospect, there is ZERO evidence and ZERO motive of a 9/11 United States govern-
ment demolition conspiracy.   Some people need to grow up.

Sincerely,

Patrick Pontillo

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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/the_world_trade_center_work_of.html

http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/wtc1.htm 

http://www.enclos.com/project/world_trade_center_twin_towers/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/524466/posts

http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/civil/wtc.shtml

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The 'trickle-down' rich didn't create jobs. They created sweatshop slavery.

The Ghosts of Christmas Futures ... and Put & Call Options.

Just a reminder:  

Holiday shoppers are the
job-creators in November
and December; not the
tax-sheltered rich)

It is acknowledged that Hillary Clinton and her usurpers of the original demo-
cratic party are the most vile and treacherous politicians in the history of the
United States of America.  The woman IS a criminal who must absolutely be
held accountable for her criminal conduct.  However, simply because Clinton
is consummately evil, it doesn't automatically canonize the present Republican
Party platform.  It needs reformed, too.
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When an American company fails to pay a livable wage, federal subsidy pro-
grams become the lifeline of the underpaid workers.  Meanwhile, individuals
such as the Walton heirs continue to accumulate obscenely disproportionate
amounts of wealth, in the spirit of 19th Century confederates whose wealth
would come to be torched and/or mangled during Sherman's March to the
Sea (Atlantic Ocean.)  However, the excessive amount of money held by
the Waltons & Romneys of this world is money due to underpaid workers.

In addition, in using low-waged foreign sweatshop labor, a lot of income was
kept away from the American worker, and therefore, a lot of state & federal
income tax dollars was deprived of the governing bodies of the United States.
Plus, empowering sweatshop labor nations causes untold pain to millions of
workers overseas and across the Mexican border.  This is why the Nuremberg
type of trial, along with that which transpired at the Hague ... and even the
Cromwell Regicide trials ... have been a part of civilization for centuries.

None the less, the American minimum wage either has to increase, or the cost
of basic necessities must decrease.  This includes fuel, clothing, shelter, and
food.  Furthermore, the French minimum wage is equivalent to $12.22 US,
and France's unemployment hovers around 5.5%.  In fact, in U.S. dollars,
the Australian minimum wage is $16.88, Belgium's is  $11.69, Ireland's is
$11.09, Luxembourg's is $14.24, New Zealand's is $11.18, and the mini-
mum wage in the Netherlands is $10.99.

The latest conclusion by those who have done their homework on the sub-
ject is to set the United States minimum wage at $12 an hour.  Of course,
this would increase the circular flow of currency, and if the non-stop rise
of the American Trade Balance Deficit ever ceases, the economy would
begin to rebuild the same way it did at the end of World War II.

Furthermore, in adjusted dollars, this would be a return to the late 1960's,
when the minimum wage was equivalent to $10.50.  That was a time when
it was not unheard-of for a young 21 year old union carpenter to own a Cor-
vette.  My present contracting officer, in government contract construction,
was one such carpenter in the 1960s.

The affordable life of the late 1960s was followed by a 1970s that saw the

United States, under Gerald Ford, was the #2 exporting nation on earth.  It
was a time when it was actually common to see a 20 year old Pittsburgh
steelworker own a Trans-Am or Z-28.  When money circulates, everyone
enjoys true liberty.  It's miserliness and greed that locks people into their
social prisons, including the prison of debt.   In the current era, WalMart
has been the richest corporation in America.  In the 1970s and even 1980s,
it was General Motors.

I now direct your attention to those who did an amount of homework on this
subject.  This includes mention that a $12 minimum wage would only require
WalMart to raise its prices by 1.1% one time.  In addition, according to the
same authors, a WalMart shopper's bill would only be raised 46 cents per
average trip to the store.  If I have time to take a surve on consumer prices,
the way I did a survey on corporate effective tax rates and military spend-
ing, I will do so.  Others have a head start on me on this topic, and they
present their writings very well.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/entrepreneur-boost-calif-wages-12-hour-21498327

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/12/04/making-low-wages-liveable/raise-the-minimum-wage-to-12-an-hour

http://www.kansasfreepress.com/2014/01/deep-pocketed-right-wing-republican-advocates-increase-in-minimum-wage.html

Demand & shoppers w/ disposable income create jobs; and not the tax-sheltered holders of wealth which was kept away from sweatshop slaves.

Christmas hiring increases only because shopper demand increases.
The rich don't create jobs.  Shoppers do.

Let us review review and review until the Reaganomics trance is broken:

Spending-money coming out of the pockets of citizens and businesses is the only thing
that creates jobs.  If there is no demand, there are no sales.  If there are no sales, there
are no jobs.  It's that simple.  In order to create jobs, more money must be in the hands
of CUSTOMERS, and not the rich who took tons of money and then put it into over-
seas tax havens and foreign sweatshop operations.

The ultimate example is Christmas time.  During Christmas, extra hiring occurs only
because there is a much higher demand for various products and services.   Thus, the
extra hiring that occurs during the Christmas Season is NOT due to the rich making
investments.  It's due to the customers making purchases.  If the money supply is tak-
en out of the hands of the consumers and then put into the hands of the rich, you end
up getting the Reagan 10.8% unemployment rate, as well as the Great Recession of
the Bush II administration.  It's that simple.  The rich have only been investing in
slave labor nations, all the while hiding personal money in overseas tax havens.

An example of how it is false to say that, "If you build it, they will come." 

There is only a limited need for funeral homes.  People are not going to start having
themselves killed and buried, just because the rich suddenly create a surplus of funer-
al homes.  Only so many people have cancer.  The cancer industry will not get more
clients, if the rich open more clinics.  Only so much of any type of product or service
can be consumed.  In as much, demand is the major determinant of added business
operations.  Should the demand be lacking, then new business will quickly go into
the history books and Voila.  No more new jobs. 

The rich have more than enough money for investment.  This is why they are called
rich.  These are the yuppies of the Reagan years.  They have already proven that they
don't care about you or the Chinese sweatshop workers who have threatened suicide
and even committed suicide.  The Reagan era yuppies are not your friend.  You are
their dupe, if you subscribe to the give-to-the-rich concept.  During Christmas, the
phrase used to be, "Give to the poor."  Not any more.

Money talks ... to politicians.   Witholding money also talks ... to big business.

Now, jobs are out there, in response to the demand that exists at this hour.  In fact,
the jobs are way out there ... in China's low-paying labor camps.  Being that foreign
sweatshop laborers make too little money, and being that there was typical protec-
tionism of the part of the Chinese Communist regime, there is the lack of demand
for American products from the Chinese workers who cannot afford them, in the
first place.

There aren't going to be any new businesses of appreciable numbers in America's
near future, if it keeps operating according to sweatshop economics, and if hiked-
up prices remain hiked, thereby draining the level of disposable income in America.
At this rate, the Republican Party will fulfill the Apocalyptic prophecy, "A Day's 
wages for a loaf of bread."  Republican economics is ushering-in Armageddon.

Disposable Income equals Potential Demand.  In as much, if you want positive
change, you have to establish the 21st Century version of Caesar Chavez's Grapes
& Lettuce Boycott.  It benefited the workers at the time.  It resulted in amended
ways of doing business.  It did not leave the workers out in the cold.

As a review, the sweatshop workers need disposable income in a two-way highway
trade system which will create the demand that will bring back the American jobs
that left for China and other sweatshop nations as far back as the mid 1990s.  Only
in two-way reciprocal trade is there free trade.  By now, you should realize that
NAFTA has nothing to do with freedom.  Only the opposite.

Putting added dollars in the hands of the rich isn't going to create demand, and there-
fore, it isn't going to create jobs that will last.  For example, the added dollars in the
hands of the rich won't increase the human body's capacity for food and drink.  So,
it won't create a greater demand for food and drink.  In as much, demand is the #1
determining factor for an economy's investment sector, in combination with the rate
of circulation of the money supply, in as far as concerns the Multiplier Effect.

It was recently proposed by a Reaganite that America is falling into the inflation trap.
In as much, take note:  As of October 2011, the U.S. dollar inflation rate was 3.53%.
At the beginning of the same year, it is 1.63%.  However, toward the end of the Bush
years the rate ranged from 5.6% to .09%, and this was in a six month period.  During
the Barack Obama years, the inflation rate has thus far been as low as MINUS 1.48%
(in Aug 2009).  In years past, the rate was an average of 13.58% in 1980, 11.03% in
1974, and even 14.65% in 1947.  In 1931, a Great Depression year, the inflation rate
was MINUS -10.3%.  Shortly after WWI, in 1919, it was 15.31%.  Plus, even though
1974 was a high inflation rate year, the United States was the second highest exporting
nation on Planet Earth in 1975.  Therefore, the present inflation rate is not alarming.

http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/HistoricalInflation.aspx

The middle class would be able to huddle together and start new businesses, if there
weren't a such a wide disparity in income between the top 10% and the bottom 90%.
Technically, it's the top 20% versus the bottom 80%, in term of stocks and securities.

As you can see, the Republicans disseminated yet another lie in claiming that you
absolutely must throw all the money in the world into the hands of rich, or else no
more jobs will be created.  The fact is that throwing more money into the hands of
the rich decreases demand by decreasing disposable income among potential con-
sumers.  The very thing that the Republicans claim to be the only cure to the econ-
omy has been the cause of its demise, all along.