Skip Bombing

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Ahhh so it's a specific type of bomb then.  Somehow I was thinking that it was done with a regular iron bomb.

It was a normal iron bomb but with a delayed fuse and sometimes depending on the hardness of the target, AP bombs were used with a delayed fuse.

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[StrayDog]

Read"  "A War of their Own"  History of the 13th AF.
Land and sea skip bombing was adopted pre-war from the brits and used by Kennedy and the 13th.  Mostly at sea as that's where the targets were.
Low-Alt 100lb and 250lb para-frags would be great fun and historically correct.

Both the Germans and Russians land skipped against armor.

NAPALM!!!!!! for late-war.    Limited to Hogs and Jugs under 500ft, 200Kts.  Struck armor would have to burn for 3 min before detonating, crew can evacuate. 
Visualze a spawn battle with columns of black smoke blowing across the field.   Kursk?

Out here.

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NAPALM!!!!!! for late-war.    Limited to Hogs and Jugs under 500ft, 200Kts.  Struck armor would have to burn for 3 min before detonating, crew can evacuate. 
Visualze a spawn battle with columns of black smoke blowing across the field.   Kursk?

Out here.

Why would napalm be limited to F4Us and P-47s?  Doesn't make any sense considering napalm was dropped by various planes from fighters to bombers.

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[Eric19]

Why would napalm be limited to F4Us and P-47s?  Doesn't make any sense considering napalm was dropped by various planes from fighters to bombers.

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b29 with napalm ............ ......................

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b29 with napalm ............ ......................

Yep, they dropped napalm bombs too.

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[StrayDog]

Why would napalm be limited to F4Us and P-47s?  Doesn't make any sense considering napalm was dropped by various planes from fighters to bombers.

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Initially they were the "Tactical" users against vehicles and soft targets.

Adopted by LeMay against Jappanesse cities in small canisters for stratigic use, not well adapted to the AH environment.

 

[StrayDog]

Ahhh so it's a specific type of bomb then.  Somehow I was thinking that it was done with a regular iron bomb.

Iron bomb, tail fuze.

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Initially they were the "Tactical" users against vehicles and soft targets.

Adopted by LeMay against Jappanesse cities in small canisters for stratigic use, not well adapted to the AH environment.

 

You seem to miss the point, P-47s and F4Us were not the only planes to drop napalm.  P-38s, Hellcats, Mustangs and others were "tactical" users of napalm when the mission called for such ordnance. 

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[Scotty55OEFVet]

ssshhhh...semp, they want to blow up the dams on the rivers with skip bombs.

I was gonna add to that buddy. As far as I know, and I have read a lot of books on WW2 and aside from the "Dambuster" Raids I have never read anything that mentioned using that method on land. Think about it, first you are flying so low that if the ack-ack gunners were so astonished to see an aircraft flying that low and level to assure a their ordnance was on target and did not fire their weapons it might have been great. But AA gunners would down that plane so quick it would be a waste of planes and pilots (in theory, and I have read that German AA Gunners were pretty darn good). Second, I really cannot see any ordnance being accurate enough to tumble in a perfectly straight line into said target due to so many variables such as wind and the terrain. Now, I have read accounts of (and I have mentioned this in the past) of  "Jug" Pilots when strafing Armor on concrete roads trying to fire their .50's so they bounce off the concrete and underneath tanks and SP's to penetrate the vulnerable underside, therefore maybe hitting the fuel tank, ammo compartment, or even personnel inside. How often this was done successfully I really don't know. I never researched any further.

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I was gonna add to that buddy. As far as I know, and I have read a lot of books on WW2 and aside from the "Dambuster" Raids I have never read anything that mentioned using that method on land.

Marine Corsair pilots did it in the Pacific.

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