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Acton Acton, welcome to We Have Ways USA with me, Al Murray, James Holland and John

Matt Manus. And this is a subject I think we at some point will come back to

later in the year due to televisual treatment of what we're going to talk about.

But this one way putting it, but what do we want to talk about, Stagion?

I thought we just talked about the eighth Air Force bomber crew experience just as a whole.

I have been so incredibly fascinated by this since I was a kid, I guess. I mean, it's

how can you know be such a one off in a way, you know, in terms of how the bombing missions worked

and all that, how vulnerable the bombers would be going forward in the future.

Yeah. And how vulnerable they were then too for that matter, but they were still effective

in if they could launch these raids, but just they it's always struck me the kind of priority,

the societal priority in both Britain and the United States, but in insane Britain, I'm

including Canada too in this equation. Yeah. And Australia to some extent of creating these

modern air forces, which absorbs so much in the way of resources to build these aircraft,

to maintain them, to ship people to to try and attract quality manpower to fly these missions.

And certainly from the American side, it's a lot of really young guys who are attracted to the

glamour of flying as they perceive it. I think sometimes this is easy for us to overlook all

these years later, especially in the 21st century when let's be honest, flying pretty much sucks

for most of us, most of the time. For that generation though, flying was just the ultimate aircraft

aviation. If you were at a say a county fairer, you were at a ballgame or something in a plane

flew over in the 1920s, everybody stopped and looked, you know, it was and that's where the

future was, the glamour, the idea that human beings could conquer the air to some extent.

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