Infamy
So those wacky Brits decided to put up a statue to the inventor of the bouncing bomb used by the Dam Buster Raid, a high risk attack in the Second World War to take out a dam providing power and support for the canal system. Sounds good until you read the plaque, which is dedicated to Sir Barnes Wallis for his work on the Infamous raid. When asked if it was a mistake it was stressed that the raid was infamous to the Germans. Just like the infamous D-Day invasion or the infamous liberation of Auschwitz. I understand those events caused the Germans some distress as well.
December 13th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Possibly why that sort of attack is was banned by additional protocol 1, art 56 of the Geneva Convention in 1977. http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-proto.htm
There’s even a special flag for Dams, Dykes and Nuclear power plants, just as there’s flag for medical facilities and Civil Defense and cultural heritage sites.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
And of course he should be honoured because his airship isn’t the one that crashed.