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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:29:14 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:29:57 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:30:57 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:32:46 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:33:49 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:35:29 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:45:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		the ford plant at Willow run put out hundreds of B-24's a month in 1944. According to an article in the Detroit News, by 1944 the Willow Run Plant was producing 1 B-24 per hour.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:49:25 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:51:34 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:53:59 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:55:25 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:58:00 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:00:53 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:03:34 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:05:22 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:08:55 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:12:28 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:16:51 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:19:56 AM   
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Goes back even further than that; Clausewitz advocated terror against civilians. Of course, it never, EVER worked.



True, soon we will be discussing the Sonderweg theory of Germany and perhaps stray into forbidden ground on The Thread! I think that we may agree on many ideas though...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:20:34 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:21:29 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:22:36 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:25:04 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:27:25 AM   
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Over 46,000 4 engine heavy bombers were built in the U.S., UK and Canada during WWII.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 4:59:10 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 6:41:24 AM   
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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


Over 46,000 4 engine heavy bombers were built in the U.S., UK and Canada during WWII.


Imagine them all parked in a row, wingtip to wingtip.....



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 11:35:55 AM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 1:47:08 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 1:47:49 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 9/24/2011 3:12:48 PM   
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