[PittsburghAfterDark]

I honestly can’t imagine what a flight of 2,000 airplanes tactical/strategic would look like.

I know when the weather broke we threw every air frame in theater into the fight. To actually see what that must have looked like, well, I suppose religious might be an apt emotion.

Not that I have much sympathy for the Germans of the era but just imagine how their blood ran cold seeing the same thing.

[smoothsailing]

On December 24, Christmas Eve, the United States flew 1,138 tactical sorties (fighters) and an astounding 2,442 heavy bomber sorties.

Not that I have much sympathy for the Germans of the era but just imagine how their blood ran cold seeing the same thing.

They had to be completely demoralized knowing not one of those aircraft belonged to them.

[ansel12]

[henkster]

Most of those heavy bombers were heading to the rail yards that funneled supplies to the German forces. This is what one of them looked like after those bombers left.