Posted on 03/06/2011 7:12:13 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
“people would be shocked just how little ordinance was carried by a B-17. But when you have thousands of them in one raid “
My 90 year old dad was a 2nd Lt in the 7th Army in WWII. When they were in France he saw thousands of bombers flying overhead, on their way to Germany I suppose. An impressive sight, he tells me.
He was with the corps anti aircraft artillery. They had radar to acquire targets and electric drives on their 90 mm guns to track them. A couple of times they spotted a German plane bearing in but the electric drive couldn’t keep up with it. Their first introduction to the world of jets.
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