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![]() On Mon, 31 May 2004, Jeroen Wenting wrote: Only after the Japanese show definite hostile intent shoot down as many as possible and provide guidance for a retaliatory strike of B-17s and B-25s against the Japanese carriers. There weren't any B-25s on Oahu[1] and the only B-17s were the one squadron which was ferrying in from California (without guns!) and which was caught the landing pattern just as the Japanese attack was reaching it's zenith. B-17s, in any case, displayed a remarkable inability to hit manuevering warships at sea. Even assuming the squadron from California could have landed at Hickham intact and undamaged, and even assuming that a B-17 counterstrike could have been armed and launched, there's little reason to believe that they would have hit any thing at all except, possibly, the pacific ocean. [1] There was a squadron of obsolescent B-18s at Hickham. There's no reason to suppose the B-18s would have been any more effective or accurate than the B-17s later proved to be. Cheers and all, |
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