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The article has a pull quote: “Bulldozers were as important to the Allied victory as the jet engine, the radar or the atomic bomb.” That's a strange statement
by kens 2y ago
The article has a pull quote: “Bulldozers were as important to the Allied victory as the jet engine, the radar or the atomic bomb.”
That's a strange statement since the jet engine had approximately zero impact on the Allied victory; the P-80 Shooting Star was produced too late to be useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jet_aircraft_of_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jet_aircraft_of_World_...
- NoahKAndrews 2y agoIt says "aircraft engine" for me
- jsheard 2y agoYou're both right, it says aircraft engine in the article body but jet engine in the pull quote. They caught the error but forgot to update the latter.
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- out-of-ideas 2y agogreat catch - deff seems inaccurate of a statement (more like lack of jet engine used against) tangentially, had to dig up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37945006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37945006 as it triggered the ol brain
- rkosk 2y agoThe P-80 might not have seen any action but the Gloster Meteor was introduced into service in July 1944 and saw a fair bit of combat through to the end of the war in Europe. Not a massive impact and wasn't really that important in the grand scheme of things, but it's still an allied jet powered plane that made some contribution to the war effort.
- foxyv 2y agoThey had an impact, just in the wrong way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262