Subject: Death On The North Sea Gunnery Range
From: "The Enlightenment"
Date: 8/11/2004 4:42 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Subject: Death On The North Sea Gunnery Range
From: "The Enlightenment"
Date: 8/11/2004 6:14 A

You are right Keith. It was CAVU all the way. To this day I still keep
wondering what the hell went wrong. Six good men lost in an instant.
And
the
war was over Could you cry?

There was a possibillity that the UK and USA may start trading blows with
the Russians. Patton was apparently raring to go. The dangerous
training
was surely as to retain opperation readiness as deterent to the Soviets.

Did the Maruader have a radio altimeter that could have provided a
warning
to the pilot?

Nope. No radio altimeter.

I meant the Invader of course but I guess the answer is the same.

One of the tragedies of war is the economics of it. Young men simply can't
be equiped with the best equipment or every gadget that is available: you
make do with what could be used and the boffins optimised the abillity to
produce weapons against 'attrition'



As far as we were concerned everything we had was the best and the latest and
state of the art.. Y'mean it wasn't ?

If you were bombing target say 1000 ft or more above sea leavel did you
rely on topographic data from maps or did you have a radar to tell you
altitude above ground level?


We had neither.

Do tell? You're not still keeping the secret of the Norden are you?

So you took and intelligent guess or you were told during briefing?


We depended on our training, experience and judgement. And it was in most
cases, but not all cases, quite adequate. We did the best with what we had.



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer