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| Subject: | Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires |  |
| Date: | Jun 27, 2006 |
| From: | Paul A. Owen | |
I'm pretty sure the reference I read said that they were dropped. However, depending on the stall speed of a beer-laden Spitfire and height, those barrels must have hit the ground with a lot of momentum. I suppose they could have been dropped into a pond to lessen the shock. If the barrels were ferried to the front lines, assuming the front line troops the most deserving of beer, where would the Spitfire land? And surely in newly liberated France free supplies of beer would be provided by the grateful French civilians, thus making a beer-supply mission redundant?
There must be some reference in a unit history of this?
Anyone with any further information?
Paul.
PS: I sense a "Sherman Comb"-type thread developing :-) |
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 | Beer Dropping Spitfires - Paul A. Owen - Jun 27, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Alex Hill - Jun 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Paul A. Owen - Jun 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Bill Goodrich - Jun 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Alex Hill - Jun 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Paul A. Owen - Jun 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Andrew James - Jun 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Thomas Naser - Jun 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Andrew Herbert - Jun 28, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - KH Tan - Jun 27, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Beer Dropping Spitfires - Richard Bullock - Jun 28, 2006 |
| . . . What kind of Beer? - James Wechsler - Jun 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: What kind of Beer? - Ken Adolphe - Jun 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: What kind of Beer? - Ross Jarvis - Jun 29, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: What kind of Beer?- Obscure Yorkshire farmers joke [IMG] - Alex Hill - Jun 29, 2006 |
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| . . . . . . Re: Beer bombers - Alex Borsboom - Jun 29, 2006 |
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