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04-18-2004, 04:39 PM
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04-19-2004, 01:32 PM
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Country:  | Question all, we were talking about worst gun positions to be in and I was wondering if any of you have info on ball turret gunners and there stories? I would like to hear from B-24 crews, but would settle for B-17. But it must have been bad, because they were phassed out of the B-24s in 1944, the B-24Ls had the sperries replace wish manual guns to save weight and the fighters were not that much of a worrie. But I am not shure I would have liked that. Any thoughts?
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04-19-2004, 01:38 PM
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04-19-2004, 01:48 PM
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04-19-2004, 01:50 PM
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04-19-2004, 03:24 PM
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04-19-2004, 09:57 PM
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'no dont read them, that way you post more and your number of posts goes up ' is what its supposed to say
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04-21-2004, 01:25 PM
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#87 | | Master of Ewes
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| The original post was asking about worst position on a bomb run wasn't it? On the bomb run the main concern was flaks since the Germans didn't wanna fly through that stuff either. Given that fact I'm not sure there was a best or worse position since flak hits were pretty arbitrary.
On the question of fighter escort to Munich . . . P-38Ls could hace done it. Earlier Lightnings were the first allied fighters over Berlin.
The reason the B-17 was more popular than the B-24 are two fold, I think. The B-17 was used predominately in the ETO and the European war received much better press coverage that the Pacific or Med. Also, the B-17 was tougher and the images of B-17s coming back to England absolutely shot to ribbons made a very lasting impression.
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05-02-2004, 03:44 PM
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#89 | | Master of Ewes
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05-02-2004, 09:22 PM
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| It was amazingly tough, but probably not as tought as the B-17. Regardless, the B-24 never got the press that the B-17 did because it primarily served in out of the way theatres (ie. everywhere but Europe).
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