Month: October 2020

Bombed - 4 April 1945 Paul Helmut Kindling Presented 4 January 2020    Topeka Saturday Night Literary Club* Season 137 For details and Critique see Slide 42ff  Expanded February 2020  1. Bombers The modern aerial bomb, with its distinctive elongated shape, stabilizing fins, and nose-fitted detonator, is a Bulgarian invention. In the Balkan War of 1912, waged by Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, and Montenegro - the Balkan League - against Turkey. Bulgarian army captain, Simeon Petrov, adapted and enlarged a number of grenades for use from an airplane.1 Seen here is an RAF store of rows of  500 pound bombs.2    A family note:  A more primitive device, a tin can filled with explosives dropped out of a biplane injured one of my uncles in 1917 on the Western Front.  He had…