this is how many bombs they dropped from fairford
Andy Newman | 16.02.2004 10:59 | Anti-militarism | Oxford
loading the bombs at fairford
This is old news n a way becasue it was published in July 2003, but i guess not many Indymedia types get Stars and Stripes.
I found this while doing some research:
"During the war, the B-52s flying from RAF Fairford flew 122 combat sorties, a total of 1,600 flying hours in 33 days. They dropped 3.2 million pounds of munitions and 9 million leaflets.!"
read the article here
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=15844&archive=true
Swindon Stop the War Coalition try to keep an up to date running log of news stories and links to other sites about fairford, you may like to check it out:
http://freespace.virgin.net/swindon.stopwar/fairford.htm
Archive for older and some more analytical pieces here:
http://freespace.virgin.net/swindon.stopwar/fairford_allnews.htm
for peace
I found this while doing some research:
"During the war, the B-52s flying from RAF Fairford flew 122 combat sorties, a total of 1,600 flying hours in 33 days. They dropped 3.2 million pounds of munitions and 9 million leaflets.!"
read the article here
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=15844&archive=true Swindon Stop the War Coalition try to keep an up to date running log of news stories and links to other sites about fairford, you may like to check it out:
http://freespace.virgin.net/swindon.stopwar/fairford.htm Archive for older and some more analytical pieces here:
http://freespace.virgin.net/swindon.stopwar/fairford_allnews.htm for peace
Andy Newman
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that is 1600 tons
16.02.2004 11:03
1 imperial ton = 2000 pounds.
so 3.2 million pounds is 1600 tons.
(by coincidence same tonnage as US air force dropped on Germany in March 1943 - exactly 60 years earlier)
Andy again