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02-27-2006, 11:33 AM
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hey guys, do ya'll know what type of bomber shot down the most fighters during WW2?
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02-27-2006, 11:38 AM
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#2 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | in terms of heavy bomber i'd guess B-17.........
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02-27-2006, 11:41 AM
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#3 | | the old Sage
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Country: | does it matter as bomber kills over fighters can basically not be at all confirmed. Please understand I know full well that German fighters were shot down by bomber gunners, have interviewed Luftie vets that went through that, but with so many bombers in tight pulk formation a fighter had to go through the gauntlet of a box from rear to front or vice versa earlier in the war with scads of .50's firing at him. who would then claim the kill ? hard to say. in effect US 8th bomb command bomber gunners grossly overestimated their accuracy and demise of their opposition.
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02-27-2006, 11:49 AM
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| A modified B17 used in the Pacific had a tail gun enplacement. The tail gunner didn't use tracer in his rounds. The Japanese fighters go for the normal method of attacking from the undefended rear and are met by a hail of invisible bullets. Unfortunately I forget which bomber and how many fighters. | |
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02-27-2006, 12:01 PM
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#5 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | most B-17s had tail gunners, and most gunners decided their own mix of ammo, 100% of one type wasn't uncommon..........
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02-27-2006, 12:03 PM
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#6 | | the old Sage
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Country: | ah not really friend. this was the case of the gunner and crew as a whole deciding with their chief ground staffman and then ammo loaders. | |
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02-27-2006, 01:14 PM
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Country:  | B-17's and Lancasters, bombing the hell out of the Focke-Wulf and Messerschmitt factories. 
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02-27-2006, 03:32 PM
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| B-17
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02-27-2006, 03:56 PM
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Country:  | I would have to believe it would of been the B-17 hands down.
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02-27-2006, 04:15 PM
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__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
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02-27-2006, 04:26 PM
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Country:  | the B-17 killed the most fighters and were also one of the best bombers of the war except for the B-29. I love the shape and design of the aircraft and it proved it self in battle.
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02-28-2006, 10:09 AM
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| The Short Sunderland "Flying Porcupine" was a beauty. Despite only .303's, one managed to destroy 2 Ju88's, then send another one packing!  | |
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02-28-2006, 11:45 AM
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Country: | B-17's!!!!!! 
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03-02-2006, 04:35 AM
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Country:  | B17, B24 and B29 ause they bombed the hell out of Junkers, Messershmitt, Focke Wulf, Mitsubishi, Nakajima, Kawanishi, Kawasaki, Reggiane, Caproni, IMAM, Macchi, Fiat, Dornier, Heinkel, ETC, and they had hundreds of aircraft in them btw
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03-03-2006, 01:39 PM
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Country: | Or maybe 2 or 3 in each Italian Factory 
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