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To: TexasGator

Are you kidding?

The B-29 caught fire at altitude. It was a death trap.

The reason for the low level fire bombings of Japan was that they couldn’t be depended on for the high altitude daylight precision bombings the B-17s & B-24s did in Europe.

By the time of the Korean War, the B-29 was improved. But, on the way out.


82 posted on 09/19/2015 7:03:01 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Trumpkins - Some Bushbots didn't learn a thing.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

“The reason for the low level fire bombings of Japan was that they couldn’t be depended on for the high altitude daylight precision bombings the B-17s & B-24s did in Europe.”

The fire bombings were run at 1500 feet at night! The B-29 flew farther, faster and with a larger payload than the B-17. The reason B-17’s weren’t used on Japan was because they were not capable of bombing Japan.

Precision bombing during WWII did not exist. For example:

” It took 108 B-17 bombers, crewed by 1,080 airmen, dropping 648 bombs to guarantee a 96 percent chance of getting just two hits inside a 400 x 500 ft (150 m) German power-generation plant.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_bombing


88 posted on 09/20/2015 9:17:10 AM PDT by TexasGator
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