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Old 06-28-2009, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha View Post
What's your source for this information ?

Don't confuse the drone of the bombers which was different for Axis and Allieds, the German bombers would sound like they were pitching up and down due to unsynchronized engines.
My house was on the WW2 German bombing flight path and the flak enplacement at the end of my road (London) was active at night and the listening stations along with radar would identify the enemy, locally by sound then confirmed to fire barrage flak.
Some of my neighbours have lived here since the war and are useful for local history etc.
IIRC it was in "Spitfire on my tail" by Ulrich Steinhilper.
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A whole generation of pilots learned to treasure the Spitfire for its delightful response to aerobatic manoeuvres and its handiness as a dogfighter. Iit is odd that they had continued to esteem these qualities over those of other fighters in spite of the fact that they were of only secondary importance tactically.Thus it is doubly ironic that the Spitfire’s reputation would habitually be established by reference to archaic, non-tactical criteria.
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