let 'em eat amotal

[Gillies, Lindsay]

Am I missing something here?  Where else to bomb *but* the docklands?  I'd 
treat any of David Irving's sources with generous scepticism.
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From: owner-pynchon-l
To: CO27447; SY19058
Cc: pynchon-l
Subject: Re: let 'em eat amotal
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 1996 9:48AM

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That's most interesting and I'd like to see David Irving(e?)'s sources.

I don't suppose the fact that the docks of London -- at that time the
world's largest -- just happen to lie in the east of the city (where
there's still deep draft and before you get to the bridges) had anything
to do with targetting?  That had been my supposition, but spoofing the
Germans on just where they things were landing makes a certain amount of
sense.  There were, after all, false light constellations to mislead
bombers that they were over the city while they were actually over
farmland.

It seems a tad callous to think that the rockets would have been
intentionally "redirected" to the docklands.  Not telling the people of
Canterbury about an impending air raid seems a lot different from saying
"bomb here."

Just my opinion, of course.