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Draws your attention to his mouth ..... facial 'trim' like chrome on cars in the '50s ...

Met an old Estonian guy through my in-laws years ago .... claimed he (and his unit) were rescued by the Americans from Berlin in the final days, escorted out and taken POW.

He had massive eyebrows and they were 'shaped' (waxed, maybe) and they met in the centre of his face, above his nose. I concluded that his intention was to compel you to look him in the eyes - all the time.

Later, I met another Esto - he was a Jesuit (very unusual, it's mostly a Lutheran/Protestant country). He chose that path after the war, he had served in a Baltic SS unit after Narva until the end.
 
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"...We wasted more by mistake than others produced on purpose."



Having the luxury of Option 1, Option 2 .... etc. isn't waste, IMO, , it's good fortune, wealth, foresight, good planning ...... and timing.

This particular thread is fascinating because it covers a swatch of history (1924 - 1945 approx.) and you can see similar patterns of behavior occurring that on the surface might be disconnected - but we know now of course that events were being swept by a current/currents.

USA and FDR weathered the great depression and emerged 're-built' (Tennessee Valley Authority, Hoover Dam, Rural Electrification Act, etc.). This while the country was hugely isolationist. If Pearl Harbor had occurred on June 7, 1939 instead of December 7, 1941, FDR and America would not been able to 'waste' anything, would have had far fewer options, and would have suffered greater losses all around, IMO.

MM
 
syscom3 said:
And what exactly production tallies did they entail? Aside from the Lanc, the other two were nothing.
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The Halifax was far from a nothing, the Sterling was less but the statement was Speaking of B29's. No other country on earth had the industrial, technical and scientific capacity to build three types of heavy bombers at the same time clearly the UK did have the three factors and built three types of Heavy Bomber. If you were to consider the difference in economic might between the UK and the USA I think we more than pulled our weight.
 
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