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11-27-2004, 04:21 AM
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#871 | | Master of Ewes
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11-27-2004, 06:52 AM
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11-27-2004, 10:48 AM
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#873 | | Master of Ewes
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11-27-2004, 11:10 AM
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11-27-2004, 11:31 AM
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#875 | | Master of Ewes
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11-27-2004, 11:59 AM
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11-27-2004, 03:35 PM
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#877 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I would not have wanted to be in a Stirling for any type of mission. But a Halifax  Maybe that would work.
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11-27-2004, 03:58 PM
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#878 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | For a bombing mission I think I would have wanted to be in a B-24 but just for historical reasons I would want a B-17 for atleast one mission just so I could say I did it. That ofcourse it just from what I know today, back then they would have put me on what ever they wanted to train me on.
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11-28-2004, 06:59 AM
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#879 | | Senior Member
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| I'd say the nose position was most dangerous , because wouldn't they go for the front more often ? 
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11-28-2004, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Yeomanz I'd say the nose position was most dangerous , because wouldn't they go for the front more often ? | Not really. It was a very difficult shot even if the enemy could get it setup perfectly. The amount of time the pilot had to aim was so small that only the best marksmen could hope to score on the actual nose of the target.
Most "frontal attacks" were conducted from above and in front, with the target being either a wing root or the cockpit area of the fuselage.
If I had a way to make the 22 mb guncam footage .mov file I have available you could look at it and you'd see that very few of the attacks in this Luftwaffe' training film are from anything close to dead on from the front. Unfortunately, my isp only allows 10 mb of webspace for each of 7 emails and I don't have a server available right now. If anyone has sufficient server space somewhere, I'd be happy to ftp it up to it for you guys to nab.
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11-28-2004, 08:17 AM
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#881 | | Senior Member
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| OK thanx
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11-28-2004, 08:30 AM
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#882 | | Master of Ewes
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and were safe from frontal atacks in a lancaster (or any other night bomber), as a general rule you never attack a plane nose on at night.................
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11-28-2004, 12:39 PM
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11-28-2004, 01:51 PM
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#884 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Most attacks were from the rear and above.
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11-28-2004, 01:55 PM
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