[Milsurplus] TCS-12

[Grif]

I have to take issue with your very last sentence. The casualty rate for
pilots was among
the highest for any units in WWII. There were some raids in which over 25 %
of the planes
were lost. In Vietnam it was the pilots who filled up the Hanoi Hilton.
While I grant you that
pilots are sometimes glorified, aerial combat has to be among the most
dangerous situations
known to man. Please don't denigrate what they did and went through. As
Churchill pointed
out about one group of pilots, "Never has so much been owed by so many to so
few."

Grif, KF4JG (Col USAF Ret.)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: <telegrapher at att.net>
Cc: <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] TCS-12


> telegrapher at att.net wrote:
>
> >> Another way to think of the importance of technology is suppose the
guidance and
> weapons and communications systems of today were fitted to B-17s. Would
the
> outcome of the last two wars have been any different? I think not.  The
public
> does not appreciate this, and reenactors who spurn radios and radar are
doing a
> disservice to the truth. Pilots are glorified bus or truck drivers.
>
> -John
>
>
>
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