Best Bomber (1 Viewer)

Best Bomber of WWII?

  • Mosquito

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  • Lancaster

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  • B-24

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  • B-29

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  • B-17

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  • B-25

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  • Do-17

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  • Ju-88

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  • He 177

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  • Other

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This poll should have been divided into Heavy Bombers and Medium Bombers. Ain't right to compare a B-25 with a B-29, they played each their role.
Also I don't see any Italian, Japanese or Russian bombers there??

I'll add a little story about a bomber:

April 29th 1944 2:19 pm.

B-24H "GYPSY QUEEN" #41-29479

448th Bomb Group, 715th Bomb Squadron.

Target: The Big "B" - Berlin.

The Bomber crashed near Poulsker, Bornholm

3 POW, 6 EVD and 1 KIA

"Gypsy Queen" participated in this mega raid on Berlin - approx. 2,000 planes were involved in the mission. However, during the bomb run, the plane was hit by FLAK and the bomb bay doors could not open and had to be opened manually and shortly after the bombs were dropped. On the return flight, the plane got serious enginetrouble and only one engine was running 100%.
So they turn North heading for Sweden on 1 engine slowly desending.
Over the Baltic Sea they were so low that the Pilot gave the order to bail out, as soon as they were flying over land again. Only 9 chutes were sighted. The Top Turret Gunner, SGT Harry J. Ambrosinis chute did not open and he died, when he hit the ground. Three other airmen were wounded in connection with the landing and they were all taken POWs by the Germans. Two other airmen were slightly wounded but were able to continue their escape. Five airmen were taken to Sweden by a Danish fishingboat and the last one, the Pilot, 2nd LT Orland T. Howard, also managed to escape to Sweden, onboard the S.S. "CARL".

So this B-24 actually flew from Berlin to Bornholm on one engine, not bad I'll say ;).
 
On the mention of parahutes failing, I read an article in Flight Journal a couple months ago I believe about incidents where there were "problems" bailing out/ejecting. A couple cases were bad or no parachutes. One Allied bomber crewman fell from 10k+, through the skylight of a train station, onto the platform, and then a German doctor started treating him. There were several other incidents along these lines. Also, one of an Aussie (I think) who jumped from his bomber without a parachute or had it fail, part way down he bumped into another crew member, they held on to each other and both landed with minor injuries - broken bones and such. Another interesting one was a Indian or British plane in the Indian Ocean IIRC, it was taking off from a carrier but didn't have enough speed. Went underwater and I believe the carrier passed over top before the pilot ejected and was picked up. Some people are just really lucky.
 
Did anyone else know that a Dehavilland Mosquito (a smaller plane made of wood) could carry the same bomb load as a B-17? and still outrun anything else in the sky? now THATS impressive

One of the first jobs for the ME262 , was to catch and shoot down the Mosquito Bombers, as Germans had no Piston Engined Fighter fast enough to shoot them down .

Andrew
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Anonymous said:
the b-17 would be nothing without the escort of the mustangs.........
WICH US BRITS MADE BETTER WITH A ROLS ENGIN
 
Yeah this topic has come up several times (usually by me :) ) there were several American planes that were made better by the Brits
 
Ego's are just a bit swelled there.... especially since we could have you Brits out on your asses to defeat the Axis alone.... so hmph. Would have too, if the Japs hadn't 'awoke the sleeping giant'
 
If the Japanese Army had been competent and listened to the Japanese Navy the US wouldn't have been be pissed off which led to the war.

Also, if the US translators understood the diplomatic style of Japanese they wouldn't have made some really bad translation errors. After the war, one of the US proposals saying the Japanese should pull out of China was clarified to have not included Manchuria when it said China, several high ranking government officials and cabinet members said after the war that had it been made clear, the government would have agreed (and used the influence of the military members in cabinet/government to control the military). The US wouldn't have been mad or imposed trade restrictions and Japan would've been quite happy (happy enough to not go to war).
 
the lancaster kicks ass said:
notably the corsair (and interestingly the ME-109 to a cirtain extent, as the early prototypes were fitted with a Rolls Royce Kestrel engine)


Bloody hell - i didn't know that
 
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