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To: PhiloBedo; whistleduck

Right, Doc is a B-29. Here’s Doc & Fifi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncUdqT8AxY0

I saw somewhere that the B-29 was the most complex and expensive weapons system in the entire war. The cockpit alone had thousands of components.

The Navy’s strategy in the Pacific War was based around the needs of the B-29 before the first one had even been built.

War planners wanted an airbase from which B-29s could bomb Japan’s Home Islands. So once Japan’s expansion drive had been halted at Coral Sea and Midway the series of battles was aimed at grabbing the Marianas and beginning the bombing campaign that would reduce Japan.


59 posted on 05/19/2019 7:24:40 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Pelham

FiFi,,,
I once would see that Aircraft
Daily.
Before the
Confederate Airforce became
Politically Incorrect.


68 posted on 05/20/2019 5:03:22 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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