Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Call of History in Good against Evil

From RAF Group Captain Johnnie Johnson, leading Allied Ace, written in  his great Tomb Wing Leader :

     ".....they turned better than the Messerschmitt (109), for we had all our work cut out to shake them off....these brutes....superior to the Messerschmitt and COMPLETELY OUTCLASSED OUR SPITFIRE 5s."

This startling observation was in November of 1941, at the introduction of Kurt Tank's Focke-Wulff 190 into the Theatre over occupied France. The battle of upgrading and countering on both sides would escalate.....

We must keep these noble birds forever in our lives, or they will, if we neglect them, reform in a new incarnation to shake the very foundations of Liberty and threaten freedom around the world, as the Focke- Wulff under Hitler did, for a time....
Opportunity and a new tyrant or tyrants hope the free people forget how it all played out when we were engaged, and not asleep.........

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