"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Dan Luke wrote:

It would surprise me to learn that the Soviets were terrified of a
weapon based on the thoroughly discredited idea that heavily armed,
unescorted strategic bombers could fight their way deep into enemy
territory with acceptable losses.

You mean like the losses the B-29s took bombing Japan? Of course, the
losses to
the B-17s against Germany were worse. Lets take the worst case there. We
lost
something over 60% of the planes that flew the Schweinfurt "Black
Thursday" raid
and over half the planes made it to the target.

Not 60%, George...60 PLANES...out of over 300 that took on the mission. I've
leave the math (one-fifth, for the math challenged) to you.