From: Jeff Shultz 

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:16:57 -0000, "Paul Ranson"
 wrote:

>http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114coventry.htm
>
>I assume that every (night) fighter in the RAF would always have been
>available, and that radar and detection of the German navigation beams would
>have provided knowledge of the target  in sufficient time. Especially for
>somewhere as inland as Coventry.
>
>Paul

Interesting. However, my original point, which nobody did get, is that we
weren't the only ones destroying civilian population centers.


>
>"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
>news:dia61vc55s2rh8gp0r3qqnq8qms1dpbumc{at}4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:16:15 -0000, "Paul Ranson"

>> wrote:
>>
>> >I think there's an element of urban myth there. What could be done about
>it?
>> >
>> Every fighter in the RAF could have been up to intercept. They
>> weren't.
>>
>> >Paul
>> >
>> >"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
>> >news:u5k41vc4k3fg02133g4s9hk7e4vijkfvof{at}4ax.com...
>> >> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:25:20 -0600, Bill Lucy

>> >> wrote in message
:
>> >>
>> >> | > And Coventry.
>> >> |
>> >> | We bombed Coventry?
>> >>
>> >> No, but the Brits knew it was coming and couldn't do anything about
>> >> it, without showing their hand that they had cracked
German encription
>> >> methods.
>> >>
>> >> --dnb
>> >>
>>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-4