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by sirwolfgang 3502 days ago
I always thought this was the more nuanced but clever part of the operation.

That said, I would hate to have been one of the test pilots for the barrels. One of them bounced too high, and ripped the plane in half.

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Bomber command had horrific rates of death.

Of a total of about 125,000 men about 55,000 died.