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December 20th 03, 05:11 AM
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... 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. 
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