Best medium bomber?

[Waynos]

As far as I know Ernst Udet ordered the Ju-88 to be developed as a 'heavy dive bomber' after the prototype had flown but that does not make it a heavy bomber either. I can give you the Ju 88 though as it is very borderline, although a fraction too small to be a true medium bomber, it is also too big to be 'light' . Also, all of my own references describe the type merely as a 'twin engined bomber' which seems a bit too vague really. I suppose I think of it as a light bomber simply by comparison alongside 'real' medium bombers like the He 111 and Wellington which were much bigger.

"Mossie was concieved at first as a unarmed fast bomber.

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I do actually know the Mosquito quite well thanks and it was not just concieved that way, it was built that way too. Just look at a Miossie next to a Wellington, they are not in the same size class. Even the Manchester was classed as a Medium bomber initially as this was the class of aircraft that P.13/36 called for.

Despite this DH deliberately set out to prove that the medium bomber spec could be met by a small light bomber, and this became the Mosquito.

There was a project to develop a larger medium bomber from the same design, this was the DH 102 but the Mossie was definitely a fast light bomber as was the Hawker P.1005. The Albemarle and its ilk were medium bombers while the Halifax and the (by now) Lancaster were reclassified as heavies.

[namvet68]

The B-26 Marauder is my pick. Bombing from medium altitudes of 10,000 to 15,000 feet, the Marauder had the lowest loss rate of any Allied bomber--less than one-half of one percent. By the end of World War II, it had flown more than 110,000 sorties and had dropped150,000 tons of bombs, and had been used in combat by British, Free French, Australian, South African and Canadian forces in addition to U.S. units. In 1945.

[MacArther]

I'll go with the B-25, for its adaptability. It went from level bomber, to close support bomber, to gunship and was still viable in the other roles. The one qualm I have with it is having seen it in person it is very cramped for the gunners in the waist section, and presumably the rest of the plane.

[Glider]

For what its worth my vote would go to the Do217

[B-17engineer]

Well i did see one at the Reading PA airshow it does seem like a pretty cramped plane

[syscom3]

The Ju88 excelled in the night fighter role. It also could carry the Fritz-X glide bomb.