Hi all, I have been off for a long long time.
Let me show some shots I did in Madrid. Note the He-111 and bf 109 with Merlin engines (Pedro and Buchon were their spanish nicknames). they were produced in spain after WWII, but they never could get the DB 600 series engines, so they used the...
Last summer i was at the Yorkshire air museum, where they have am amazing Halifax.The museum is located in Elvington, a little village close to York, and ariginally was thw homw base of 4th bomber group...Is a nice place to visit, they have a nice collection of "turrets" (I mean gunners...
If i can choose a position in a b17 crew, i would choose to be the guy who refuel the plane...becouse I think all the position inside the plane were very dangerous. But must to be fantastic to shoot some fighters from the turrets....I dont know what to do.... :leftfighter7:
You are right, Smokey, I knew the history of Wever and Kesserling, and the diferent points of view they had, due to their diferent military education. I try to mean some kin of "What if..." They would had an operative/efective long range bomber...What would have changed??
Why do you think germany didnt make bigger efforts to get effective long range bombers, and what would have changed if they had a good number of them??
I think that He177 and Condor were very good planes,but worse than lancasters,b17 or Libs...
Maybe it was a lack of good strategy of war...
I have been in Elvington,close to York, I think it was a halifax base, and you even can see a fantastic Halifax, and some interenting buildings, becouse is now a museum. I will be over there in 15 days again, and i will take some pictures to post...