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Post by beana51 on Nov 9, 2012 20:57:20 GMT -5
Mount Vesuvius caused more Allied bomber losses than a Nazi air raid The Italian Campaign of World War II happened to coincide with the last major eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Bad news for the 340th Bombardment Group of the US Army Air Forces, which happened to be based at Pompeii Airfield at the time of the eruption. Yeah. That Pompeii. Slightly less than 1,900 years after the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, a group of B–25 Mitchell bombers were stationed a few miles from the foot of the volcano, part of the Allied invasion of Italy proceeding up the Apennine Peninsula. It was March 1944, and Vesuvius was about to erupt. The eruption would cause one of the heaviest losses to any US bombardment group in World War II.
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Post by nige on Nov 12, 2012 14:03:54 GMT -5
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Post by beana51 on Nov 12, 2012 15:23:49 GMT -5
Thanx NIGE,Awesome stuff.!!.....I have been there numerous time...Visited Pompeii,went up to the rim of Mt. Vesuvius...steam!still is rising.It will explode again....I ask my friends, and distant relatives, who live there,are they not concerned??..and they look at you,shrug their shoulders,and say "Che Sera Sera"....the wine from those slops are magnificent,and like the Romans 2000yrs before them, they will save that event for the end!...CIAO!..Vin
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