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Article: Readers Fill in the Story Surrounding Death of Lt. Joseph Kennedy
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- October 4, 2009
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Answer Man's Sept. 6 column about the death of Lt. Joseph Kennedy
-- killed while on a mission over England during World War II --
brought many comments from readers. Kennedy's bomber -- packed
with explosives and rigged to be operated remotely by radio control
from a nearby plane -- exploded before the Navy pilot could bail
out.
The targets for these Project Aphrodite missions included a Nazi
"supergun" site on the coast of France and the launching pads for V1
and V2 rockets. Answer Man's characterization of the latter as
"primitive" missiles rankled a few readers. True enough. The rockets
were simple compared with the guided missiles that came later, but
Londoners on the ...