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05-04-2004, 04:25 PM
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| If you are looking for info on the B-24 try this site www.b24bestweb.com
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05-04-2004, 04:48 PM
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Country:  | Lightening Guy, I love the sight! The resurch forum is a great place to read and find crew also good for nose art. 
My sig still needs some help, well life goes on! 
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05-04-2004, 04:49 PM
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05-04-2004, 05:04 PM
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Thanks C.C, now I hope you all do like the Grand Lady! 
I hope to try and get a B-24 to put beside her, but that would mean a little work.
I am looking for good pics of the Liberator, any of you all have sugestions 
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05-05-2004, 01:53 PM
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#110 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | tried google?
and back to the arument about payloads and ranges, i'm going to champion the lancaster and say it could carry a bigger payload further, thus, it's the better bomber................
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05-05-2004, 02:02 PM
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05-05-2004, 02:19 PM
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#112 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | the B-29 was never in the argument, it was between the B-17 and B-24, then i brought in the lancaster, there aint room for another one..........
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05-05-2004, 02:20 PM
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Country: | Hahah. The B-24 was better than the B-17...the Lancaster was better than the B-17..but I don't know about the Lanc Vs. B-24.
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05-05-2004, 02:23 PM
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#114 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | the lanc beats the B-24 everywhere apart from "servivability", that was the lanc's main downfall.................
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05-05-2004, 02:29 PM
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Country: | In that case, I'd rather be in the B-24 but I would rather send out Lancasters if I weren't going to be in them...
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05-05-2004, 02:49 PM
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#116 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | what would be the point, the lanc carries nearly 3 times the payload on normal missions, so whats the point in sending out B-24's when they wont do any damage?
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05-05-2004, 03:31 PM
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Country: | Well I wouldn't care about the damage caused if I was in the thing, I would want to get home.
If I wasn't in the thing Lancasters all the way, they will do more damage of course but the B-24 did cause mass amounts of damage, I heard it was the bomber to drop most bombs on Axis Europe. But I don't know.
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05-05-2004, 04:18 PM
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Country: | plan_D, I have read, and if you do a google surch I think you can find it that the B-24 had the most tonage dropped.
Lanc, yes the Lancaster could take out more load, but at a shorter range, and the "Survivability" was not that great. If it could take the same amount of beating the B-24 or even the B-17 did then we might have an argument. For the night bombing the Lancaster and that big bombload were just great. But I should read up more on it.
As for Liberator pics, I did find some on Google, and am still looking. Also looking for information on Ford's Willow Run Plant. Now if the Lancaster could have been made on a mass line like the Liberator that would have been a sight
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05-05-2004, 04:30 PM
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Country: | Yes, well I was just a little skeptical, as I had only read it from one source. But it's no surprise the Liberator did a lot of work.
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05-05-2004, 04:36 PM
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| Everything said about the B-17 in the B-17 v. Lanc argument applies to the B-24 as well. Yes the Lanc carried a bigger load but the B-24 closed the gap, plus it was tougher, better armed, and more accurate. Plus, it must be remembered that there were more than 18,000 B-24s built compared with 13,000 something B-17s and 7,000 something Lancs.
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