The English climate was what got them down the most. The bomber boys of the U.S. Eighth Army Air Force who arrived here to join the war against could never stomach the rain, the fog, the cold — and, most of all, the unpredictability.In their letters home, they cursed England for its lousy weather. For men trained for combat in the clear blue skies of and , it made the flying harder, the dying more likely.A U.S. government guide book issued to the tens of thousands of American airmen sent to England from 1942 onwards slid over this little local difficulty: it promised that the English climate was no different from Boston's or Seattle's and that newcomers would get used to it 'eventually'.
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