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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: blkmgc on February 24, 2008, 09:03:26 AM
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about commonly believed RL bomber altitudes ,tactics ,ect for those here who are a bit misinformed.
In any case , some great reading of a diary of an actual bomber pilot for all. :)
Posted by Loboxx on our forums. Thanks man.
http://mysite.verizon.net/res72uuj/diary.html
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Great find, This clears up a big sir, thanks! :aok
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Wow, absolutlely awsum, thankyou for shareing his journal with us:aok
to him and his crew and to you for posting.
Don
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Fascinating reading ...:aok
His description of the Schweinfurt raid is amazing. Also, I never knew that the B-17 could carry wing mounted bombs ( Munster raid ) .
Great find...thanks!
Joker
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Hehe, you noticed that too?
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Very fascinating stuff. Makes me want to run some high alt raids.
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Wow...very nice find.
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Read Raid #5. Boy I can only imagine the terror of having to go thru something like that. It really leave you feeling kind of awed.
Thank you Magic and Loboxx.
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Thats funny, his CO suckered him into another tour.. LOL. Great read thanks for posting.
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:cool:
He's got a cool name.
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He only lists alts on about 1 in every 5. On top of that there are many other reports available (folks have linked them in the past) that I've read that list much lower altitudes.
Hardly a representative sampling of bomber alts. Just playing devil's advocate.
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Originally posted by Krusty
He only lists alts on about 1 in every 5. On top of that there are many other reports available (folks have linked them in the past) that I've read that list much lower altitudes.
Hardly a representative sampling of bomber alts. Just playing devil's advocate.
Well you believe that the Polesti raid was conducted solely from 6 to 8 k AGL out of bases with 2 year old 200 foot pine trees...
Ohh, and just playing devil's advocate.
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Originally posted by Krusty
Just playing devil's advocate.
No, not you.:rofl
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Raid 5 July 28, 1943--Kassel, Germany (http://mysite.verizon.net/res72uuj/raid5.html)
Amazing they made it home from this one. Shows how tough those 17s were. Great read thanks for posting
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Originally posted by blkmgc
No, not you.:rofl
:aok
Indeed.
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Originally posted by Krusty
He only lists alts on about 1 in every 5. On top of that there are many other reports available (folks have linked them in the past) that I've read that list much lower altitudes.
Hardly a representative sampling of bomber alts. Just playing devil's advocate.
i didn't read the link yet as it's pretty late..but it's bookmarked for later reading......
read a book called combat crew by john comer.....he was a top turret gunner on a 17......if i recall, the average alts were in the mid 20's....i think they said 27 to 28k was high alt...and something like -60F too..........
awsome people that did what they did for the rest of us
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This is great. Thanks for posting the link.
Man, I'd love to see a picture of the plane after it landed on mission #5.
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A great find, and a great read.