Stormin' Norman wrote in
:

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:01:28 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

A very complicated process to shoot
down just one bomber, esp at a time when
every mission contained hundreds of bombers.

That raises an interesting question. On average, I wonder what the
bomber kill rate was for traditional German fighters when the allied
bombers had long range escorts all the way to Berlin?

I also wonder if flak from the German 88's imposed a greater toll on
the bombers than the German fighters?


My dad's squadron (B-26's) feared flak
much more than fighters. At least you could
shoot back at fighters and sometime you had
escort fighters to keep them busy. Flax was
just a section of sky filled with shrapnel
you had to fly thru to reach the target.
No evasion, you just hope your plane is
luckier than the next guys'.