Comments on: Ja, die Junkers kommt!

By: Howard Curtis

Howard Curtis — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:12:23 +0000

Tony and Manny have valid concerns but let us appreciate the technology of the JU-52 and the horrors of those who used them and gas chambers to kill so many. As for General Curtis LeMay and other heroes you must realize there are still many who dream of incinerating you and me in our wooden dwellings. The heroes are the ones who have kept it from happening then and now.
So let’s learn from the engineers and enjoy the beauty all aviation has given us, some good some bad but flying any aircraft is a joy to behold.

By: Manny

Manny — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:57:33 +0000

I sympathize completely with Tony in his feelings about anything related to the Nazi era. They were the baddest of the bad guys in history. Yet I know that Messershmitts and Stukas abound in Museums in Europe as examples of wartime aircraft. I think of Henman England as one example of that. Henman Field was an active airfield during WW2.
So why then should we expempt the Junker. We fly B17′s, B25s and B-29 Superfortresses around the country and glorify them despite the millions of lbs of bombs both incendiary and other types that they dropped and killed indiscriminately civilian and military alike. Dropping incendiaries on Japan was most cruel given their little wooden shacks. They had no protection. General Curtis LeMay stands in history as the proponent of such bombing. He is not a hero in my book. Women and children mostly were incinerated by such a tactic as the men were all in the military for the most part and not preesent in the home cities at the time the bombing took place. I shudder at the thought. So we have our things to be ashamed of alslo but we are aren’t. We still congratulate ourselves for this type of warfare. How about that Tony!

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:07:34 +0000

I see no reason to promote, advertise or celebrate the arrival of a nazi era airplane in the United States. Far better that this and all other remnants of the monstrosities of that monster should have been destroyed 67 years ago!