loneranger07 t1_j5fejcr wrote on January 22, 2023 at 4:58 PM

Reply to comment by llyan in TIL Bob Hoover, an American Spitfire pilot in WW2, was shot down over occupied France and captured but was able to escape from the POW camp 16 months later, steal a German fighter, and fly it from northern Germany to friendly territory in Holland. by MetaSatakOz

I am American and upvoting you for truth. I despise a lot of the atrocities committed by the Soviets and of course the Nazis, but we did bad stuff too. Like use Wernher von Braun to go to the moon after he shot rockets at London (the V-2s namely) that were built by concentration camp labor. And bomb Dresden to pieces. And firebomb Tokyo to pieces.

llyan t1_j5feru7 wrote on January 22, 2023 at 5:00 PM

Yep. Pretty much. The victors tell their own version of history. And repeated enough times, it becomes the truth