• Atin@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    My great grandfather used to drop 500lb bombs on them. It was super effective.

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      9 months ago

      Your great grandfather sounds incredibly based!

      Mine had the dubious honors of smuggling booze as an early teen, and allegedly helped popularize deposit fees because he would rent all the major party halls in his city, and then cancel all but one, ensuring he ran the only big party in town on a given weekend.

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      My grandfather helped your grandfather by going up in untested fighter planes with the pilots and checking to make sure none of the bolts were loose.

      He was also an air raid warden in London, meaning he was out on the streets getting people to safety while the bombs were dropping.

      I wish I had an ounce of that man’s courage… although, being both Jewish and German, he knew exactly what had to be stopped.

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        He started off as Infantry sent to Gallipoli, then joined the Australian Flying corps and flew over Ypre and the Somme. After the end of WW1 he joined the RAF and flew medium bombers over Europe during WW2.

        I just remember him as a kind old man that loved me.

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            9 months ago

            At least the originals could honestly say that they didn’t know how far it would be taken. Modern Nazis know exactly where this shit goes.