"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: How accurate was B-26 bombing?
From: "Kevin Brooks"
Date: 2/29/04 3:31 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: How accurate was B-26 bombing?
From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 2/29/04 2:13 PM Pacific Standard Time

Can we see some of your strike photos?


Sure old man.

To be fair, these two are actually the result of two 2-ships, but my
formation
hit it first.

Befo http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/990526-O-9999M-003.jpg

After:
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/990526-O-9999M-004.jpg

This mission was very interesting...to say the least:
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/b990514i.jpg

The rest of my strikes to make "news" were JDAM strikes. The one thing
you
will
notice is that mil dispersion pretty much ensures a few of your
weapons
are
going to miss by a good distance, despite what you say. If you look at
the
Batajanica images, we threw a few M-117s out "in the weeds". We had
anticiapated this because some of the weapons were in pretty bad
shape.
Unlike
you, we realized that sending a loader back to get us some new weapons
would
have interfered with the "hustle & bustle" of flightline ops, so we
pressed
on.


The runway was shutdown for the remainder of the conflict, although
Eagle
pilots flying around probably aided in shutting down flight ops there
as
much
as our weapons did.

Were you trying to make a point with your question?


BUFDRVR


YTHe point I was triyng to make was that we flew misison swith dumb
bimbs
that
were sometimes as accurate as mision flown today with smart bombs.

LOL! Nope. Accuracy is usually guaged by CEP. Getting a single bomb, or
two
or three, to hit the given aim point, while a laudable event, does not
mean
that your strike was inherently accurate--because the other 200 bombs
ended
up spread over a quarter section. Your CEP during WWII was abysmal
compared
to that which was evidenced during Vietnam (with dumb bombs). Modern dumb

For a guy who spent his entire military career behind a desk in Ohio, you
sure
have a good line of bull****.

Firstly, I told you before, the only military duty I ever performed in Ohio
was serving as OIC of the funeral detail for some Ranger who wrapped his car
around a telephone pole outside FT Benning. No desk sitting was required, as
I was TDY from my post. Secondly, it is interesting that once again you
can't bring yourself to address the points raised-- especially from that
other B-26 bombadier who rather adroitly trashed your "we never missed" BS
(we see you are still having severe problems with that whole concept of
"truthfulness"). Thirdly, you plonked me earlier today (for about the third
time)...you forgot already?

Brooks



Arthur Kramer