Subject: Night bombers interception in Western Europe in 1944
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 7/17/2004 11:21 AM Pacific Standard Time
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Subject: Night bombers interception in Western Europe in 1944
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 7/16/2004 5:03 AM Pacific Standard Time
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Subject: Night bombers interception in Western Europe in 1944


We offered to give the Brits B-17's each with a big fat belly
turret.They
wouldn't take them. Big mistake.

The RAF operated at least one squadron of B-17's and a number of B-24's
Bomber command were NOT impressed by the type and operated them
mainly as EW aircraft jamming German communications

Keith


They were getting the **** shot out of them every night as they flew
planes
with no belly turrets. And hey used the planes with belly turrrets,
B-17's and
B-24's for electronic jammimg? Brilliant. Just brilliant.


It was since they Germans needed those electronic aids to
find them. Bottom line Art is that most hight bombers
never saw what killed them and no radar guided turrets
were then available.

The option then was fit a belly turret of doubtful utility
and to do so you have to remove the H2S Radar dome
you need to find the target.

Keith


How about take off a few pounds of bombs and do both?


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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