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To: colorado tanker
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IMHO, the Air Force stuck to the "unescorted bomber" theory too long, the precision daylight bombing was right on though.
46 posted on 02/09/2004 9:35:59 AM PST by SAMWolf (I am reading a very interesting book about anti-gravity.)
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To: SAMWolf
I agree with you, Sam. Even with all the guns on a B-17 and flying tight formations, they were very vulnerable to fighters. We were asking an awful lot of those crews to continue to fly unescorted.
48 posted on 02/09/2004 9:51:57 AM PST by colorado tanker ("There are but two parties now, Traitors and Patriots")
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