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To: spanalot
Duh - ever here of the Doolittle Raid - the thousand miles from Berlin to Moscow was easy for the 24, 25 and even the 17.

Dont forget that the Hiroshima bomb only had a couple hundred pounds of explosives.

Yes, I have heard of the Doolittle raid. That other than the B-29 was capable of delivering an atomic bomb is nothing I've heard before. Makes me wonder why we bothered to develop the B-29 and fight for a place in the Pacific to accommodate it bombing Japanese cities.

93 posted on 03/16/2008 4:56:42 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon; spanalot
That other than the B-29 was capable of delivering an atomic bomb is nothing I've heard before.

You haven't heard that because it isn't true. Only the B-29 were large enough to carry the early primative A bombs like fat man, and even then, the bombay doors had to be remade to drop the much larger load.

96 posted on 03/16/2008 6:09:26 PM PDT by xJones
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