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this is how many bombs they dropped from fairford

Andy Newman | 16.02.2004 10:59 | Anti-militarism | Oxford

Information courtey of Stars and Stripes (Official US forces paper)

loading the bombs at fairford
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

Andy Newman
- e-mail: swindon@stopwar.ork.uk
- Homepage: http://freespace.virgin.net/swindon.stopwar/index.htm

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that is 1600 tons

16.02.2004 11:03

just to clarify
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


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