Human Smoke

[Dave Monroe]

Lord Cherwell's personal sceretary looked at 650 reconnaisance
photographs of places the Royal Air Force had bombed earlier that
summer.  The secretary's conclusions were that, on averagee, one in
five airplanes that took off from England to bomb Germany or the coast
of France successfully placed its bombs somewhere within sventy-five
square miles of its assigned target.  When there was no moon or heavy
flak, the miss rate was even higher.
  The secretary's name was David Benusson-Butt, and his report, dated
August 18, 1941, achieved fame as the Butt Report.  It caused
soul-searching at the Air Ministry.  Churchill began to doubt that
bombing alone would win the war.  But the bombing continued.
Churchill's slogan was "Keep buggering on." (p. 381)

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Cf. ...

In the trenches of the First World War, English men came to love one
another decently [...], while Europe died meanly in its own waste, men
loved. But the life-cry of that love has long since hissed away into
no more than this idle and bitchy faggotry.  In this latest war, death
was no enemy, but a collaborator.  Homosexuality in high places is
just a carnal afterthought now, and the real and only fucking is done
on paper.... (GR, Pt. III, p. 616)