5 Favourite Planes

[plan_D]

Yes. I was reading about the Tirpitz as I wrote that so I was talking about the Tall Boy.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but the tall boy was 12,000lbs, not 13,???lbs (i can't remeber exactily what you said)..................

 

[plan_D]

I don't actually know, but what I was reading said 13,200 lbs TallBoy. And as that figure was in my head, I decided to use it. I don't really care about how the Tirpitz was ended, I'm actually reading mostly about all the Navies. And a little thing about the Italian Aircraft Carriers.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

little's the right word..................

and the tall boy weighed 12,000lbs, i don't know where they got 13,200lbs.........................

 

[plan_D]

So was it 32 Lancasters and 3 hits that capsized the Tirpitz?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well there were to raids (i'm doing this from memory so there will proberly be mistakes) and it the first raid launched from russia, one hit from a 2,000lb bomb, the damage this caused forced the germans to move the tirpitz to within range of a raid launched from britain, in the second raid there were two hits from tall boys, forcing it to capsize.................

 

[plan_D]

It says three, here.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but it also says the bomb weighed 13,200lbs.....................

 

[plan_D]

That's true, but how many sources of yours say 2?

 

[Lightning Guy]

I believe there were three raids launched against the Tirpitz but one was hendered by the German smoke screen if I remember right.

Bomb weights are often rounded (for example the true weight of a 500lb bomb is something like 505lbs). Maybe that was the case with the Tallboy - but that's just a possibility.

 

[plan_D]

I read there were several raids on the Tirpitz, but the last one that capsized it said there were three TallBoys that hit it.

 

[toffi]

15th September 1944 - first air raid on Tirpitz using Tallboys (16 Lancasters with them and 11 with standard bomb load) - only one bomb exploded near the ship. Huge blast and wave caused by explosion broke away a big part of upper deck and damaged ship's side.
29th October 1944 - one Tallboy (out of 32 used) exploded near Tirpitz damaging ship's side.
12th November 1944 - third and last air raid with Tallboys. 32 Lancasters (29 with Tallboys) achieved two direct hits and one almost direct (just by the Tirpitz), which ripped up ship's hull. Tirpitz in a very short period of time turned turtle. 800 of total 1204 seamen died.

Source: "Battleships of Second World War" by Cezary Szoszkiewicz

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

so in a way we were both right........................

 

[plan_D]

Yes, I'm good with that outcome. 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

of course i was more right than you.....................

 

[plan_D]

I fail to see how, as I stated 3 bombs dropped when you said 2. Since 2 actually hit though, you were nearly right. While I was completely right.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well there were to raids (i'm doing this from memory so there will proberly be mistakes) and it the first raid launched from russia, one hit from a 2,000lb bomb, the damage this caused forced the germans to move the tirpitz to within range of a raid launched from britain, in the second raid there were two hits from tall boys, forcing it to capsize.................

if you read that you'll find i do meantion hits from three bombs................

 

[plan_D]

You stated in two different raids, when I was talking about the final raid when the Tirpitz actually sank.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

which constituted of 2 tallboys.................

 

[plan_D]

No, two tallboys that hit. And one was a near miss.