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Originally Posted by Eric

Just a little wander: A couple of weeks ago, I heard an interview with a Japanese guy who survived the bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki .... no shlt ... he survived Hiroshima, and then scurried back to his home town of Nagasaki at about the same time "Bock's Car" arrived .... ... of course, I think the dropping of the bombs was appropriate reprisal for the bayonetting of British and Canadian wounded as they were on the operating tables in Hong Kong and Singapore ... and the Rape of Nanking ... etc., etc., etc. Ooops ... I think I've wandered into the realm of pc'ism, better quit while I'm ahead.

By the way, isn't Rolls Royce now owned by the krauts ... you know, those wonderful people who gave us the Blitz. Ironic that the Merlin engine was what put them on their asses.

The mechanical devices that attached the bombs to the planes were designed by one of the Marx brothers.I think it was Groucho but I may be wrong.(as if)