B-29 Losses

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 07-13-2006, 02:13 PM

Also look at how long they were in service for. The B-29 did not start bombing Japan until mid 1944.

German AA guns were better as well and the Luftwaffe was able to put more up to meet the bombers than the Japs were able to.

P38 Pilot · 07-18-2006, 04:35 PM

I know. FLAK 88s as well as good interceptors manage to tear up American bombers by the dozens!

102first_hussars · 07-19-2006, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

Also look at how long they were in service for. The B-29 did not start bombing Japan until mid 1944.

German AA guns were better as well and the Luftwaffe was able to put more up to meet the bombers than the Japs were able to.

Well its my understanding B-29 was able to fly to a higher ceiling than anything the Japs had.

Gnomey · 07-19-2006, 08:05 AM

But they didn't, most of the B-29 raids on Japan were low level firebombing raids...

syscom3 · 07-19-2006, 09:48 AM

During the daylight hours, the attacks were from high altitudes. Daylight raids still occured with regularity throughout the campaign. There was no single doctrine of "only" nighttime raids.