Airborne Adventure

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Richard writes--
>
>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".  


Yeah, that's the general adventure I assumed, the idea that by this time in the war the  
allied air dominance was so complete that only the weather could impede it.  On the 
tone--could the narrator be simply referring ironically the attitude of the flyboys 
themselves? Carpet bombing those defenseless German cities, the way our top guns in the 
Gulf *War* called the massacre of the retreating civilian and military convoy a *Turkey 
Shoot*

john m