Airborne Adventure

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Bogged down Airborne adventure could also refer to the miserable weather 
in late 44, early 45 which took away Allied air superiority.  This was 
the German's big break when they attacked in the Ardennes.  But Von  
Manstein's tanks ran out of fuel, never getting that close to Antwerp.  
TRP's use of the word adventure is ironic in the sense that it implies 
the staginess of what we would call "events", it's all been planned out 
already, disguising the real war that continues still...only some 19th 
century romantic would call  bloody battle and death, an "adventure".  



Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org