From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:14:19 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
>  wrote:
>
> >Destroying cities from the ground using infantry etc. is ancient. It was
the
> >bomber aircraft flying from hundreds of miles away which was new.
> >
> >Adam
> >
> Do you have any doubt that, based on their other actions during the
> war, the Japanese would have hesitated to do so, given the ability?
>

Possibly not however the use of ground attack aircraft in the manner which
the Germans worked out in the Spanish Civil war was simply not something
they had worked on/developed.

Partly it has to be said because they didn't have to. i.e. Germany was
aiming at taking on 1st rate powers not a crumbling mass like China.

Adam

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