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Country:  | Not the only objective, but the main one. The reason they carried on trying to take it was because of Hitler wanting the city bearing the Soviet Unions leaders name.
Taking Stalingrad gave a great area for a garrison able to hold the oil fields. Also, the industrial base was huge in Stalingrad, it was a VERY important city to have.
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Country:  | Agreed! I have wanted to try and find a good book about it but have not looked around much. I have been to distracted in my reading. Or even some websites that might be good.
Is it only the two of us writing here now?
To go to more of a topical point I was reading a story of a b-17 recon flight shooting down Japanese flying boats. It is not that bad.
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| A couple of B-24s in China scored a few kills over Japanese flying boats. Chennault started refering to that squadron as his B-24 fighter squadron.
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Country: | Not really that amazing, I mean it's a flying boat. It's not like it had a dogfight with a Fw-190. Even then they still got kills on the 190s.
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Country: | True. I thought it was a nice story. I need to read more on Chennault. I have seemed to forget him in my B-24 readings. AH more to read! 
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| did the c-47 have and armerment
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| I don't know of it carrying any during the war.
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Country: | The American C-47 didn't have armament but the Soviet copy Li-2 had a top turret.
And then the AC-47 'Spooky' in Vietnam was armed to the teeth.
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| what are mgs
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Country: | Most transports other then the USAAC were armed with a tail gun. Ju-52s had more used to straff the field before troops jumped. The Russian Li-2 was a Licence built DC-3 with top turret and tail gun some had beam guns as well. :0 Hapy reading!
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