The 26th April 1937 saw Hitler’s Condor Legion bomb the Northern Spanish Basque town of Guernica. It was seen as a proving ground for the Nazi party’s new Luftwaffe and much experience was to be garnered from the Spanish Civil War. The Condor Legion was led by Oberstleutnant Wolfram Freiherr Von Richthofen(The Red Baron’s cousin) and under Nationalist control. Guernica was behind the front lines and was a town of about 7000 population. The bombing was in waves and exact casualty reports are unknown, but probably numbered around 1000. The Legion was a mix of Fighters and Medium Bombers, all names we know: 109s(B not Es), HE 51s (biplanes), DO 17s, JU52s and HE111s. There were also some Italian Fiat Fighters and the versatile SM79.
The outcome of the bombing was to demoralise the townsfolk and lead to its falling to Franco’s Nationalists on the 29th April.
This bombing raid was to be a preview of what was to happen between 39-45 to larger cities like Warsaw, London,Berlin, Dresden and finally Tokyo.
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This is why I binge drink:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16265307/I have to give my self a couple weeks between benders so my brain can regenerate, otherwise I’d be a talking monkey. :-D
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I am steadilly becoming a vegetable then…
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I’d be a talking monkey. :-D
Aren’t we all, already?
And this survey says quitting alcohol. I find that utterly depressing. :cry:
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I dont have much else to do here except waste time on the internet and drink. :lol: And maybe go to the shooting range every now and then.
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Quitting drinking sounds pretty radical to me :evil:
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quitting drinking? Isnt that treason?
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I had a patient in the ER who came in with the problem of falling all the time. He basically had no balance, and could not navigate a curb without falling down and hitting his head. The physiotherapists told us he was not safe to leave the ER, and the psychiatrists deemed him incompetant to make his own decisions.
He was sober at the time, and a young guy (50’s i think), but after a career of drinking, your brain really becomes mush. (look up Werniecke’s and Korsakov’s - forgive me if the spelling is off . . . ). -
Listen Dr. Tim!
If your comments are depressing and involve drinking in a negative tone, I’ll thank you to keep it to yourself. Jeeze, I think I’ll go have a drink! :wink:
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There are those who drink and those who don’t -decide which you are and stick with it. :-)
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I don’t actually drink…
Alcohol has declared war on me and keeps invading via my mouth over and over :-P
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