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To: EveningStar

That is not so suprising. My father was a bomber crewmember both in the ETO and PTO. His opinion was that no matter how good the escort pilots were and the Tuskegee pilots were good there were always going to be losses. There would either be a lot more enemy fighters than the escorts could handle and some of those would hit a mark or the ground flak which was heavy on the way to and over high-value targets would take a few.

Even with the new information they were an outstanding unit with great pilots.


15 posted on 04/01/2007 11:52:15 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

"Even with the new information they were an outstanding unit with great pilots."

The tragedy is that they weren't used sooner in the war. They were extremely well-trained abd would have given the Luftwaffe a tough time when our bomber crews really needed them.


21 posted on 04/01/2007 11:57:23 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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