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This was a wonderful way to spend several hours of my time whilst bored to death during 24hr CQ duty. Thank you very much for the post.

This makes me wonder... as a crewman, which did you fear more? The FlaK, or enemy interceptors?

I believe that mostly stemmed from the B-24's ball turret, which actually had to retract into the fuselage during takeoff and landing to avoid hitting it.

Also think about the construction. The Lancasters (among many other RAF bombers) used a honeycomb airframe which would enable the aircraft itself to be VERY hard to down, but the crew members themselves were relatively unprotected barring some 'armored' glass, contrary to this is the B-17, which...