oh! oh! Angel doubling

[mikebailey]

Angel of Mons - (which I thought was real) propaganda of WWI
Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force in World War
I. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons)

Angel of Lubeck - was bombed for the first time by the Royal Air Force on the
night of 28/29 March 1942. It was the first major success for RAF Bomber Command
against a German city.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_L%C3%BCbeck_in_World_War_II)

Invented by Pynchon to parallel the Angel of Mons? and to highlight
the difference between the trench-based warfare of WWI where men could
still behold and love one another, and the aerial bombardments of
WWII in which that was less the case...