And that is why the Civil Air Patrol was originally formed. To fly the coast line looking for U-Boots. Now it is a civil search and rescue group that also works like ROTC as an Airforce Auxillary to teach young people about Aeronautics and such not.
Best Bomber of WW2 (continued)
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evangilder
"Shooter"
Here in California, the CAP also assists the DEA for catching drug runners and the border patrol.
Thats good stuff. I was in the CAP when I was younger. I really loved it and would love to get back into it as a cadre.
superunknown
Airman
I think the B-24 was the best, it may have flown "like a slab sided lorry" but it served in every theatre and did the job perfectly where ever it went. Plus the fact it was brilliant for anti shipping duties, did you know that Liberators dropped the first "guided" bomb during WW2. The Azar (or something like that) was used for knocking out bridges in the CBI theatre.
mosquitoman
Master Sergeant
It was the Azon (Azimuth and something else) It was also instrumental in the Convoy Escort- Terence Bulloch in Liberator AM929 is the only person to have sunk 2 submarines in 1 sortie
Yes but it was guided by azmithuth only.
The Fritz X was the first operational "guided" bomb.
The Fritz X was the first operational "guided" bomb.
DaveB.inVa
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PB4Y-2 Privateers (the Naval Liberator with the single big tail) dropped a glide bomb called the Bat. This thing was one of the most technological innovations of the war as it was a radar guided homing glide bomb. Set it and forget it.... it did not have to be guided at all by an operator like the Azon and Fritz X.
On the open ocean it was deadly as when dropped the radar only had one real target to home in on, the ship. If dropped near land however the radar was easily confused and would glide toward the object with the largest return, like mountains and land. These were used with pretty good success from January 1945 onward.
On the open ocean it was deadly as when dropped the radar only had one real target to home in on, the ship. If dropped near land however the radar was easily confused and would glide toward the object with the largest return, like mountains and land. These were used with pretty good success from January 1945 onward.
wmaxt
Staff Sergeant
DaveB.inVa said:
There was a group of B-25s that flew into the Yellow sea andthe sea of Japan at night with the Bats. They were quite successful but I've only seen the details once several years ago. The missions were 12-14 hours long.
wmaxt
mosquitoman
Master Sergeant
Coastal Command Liberators and Avengers off the escort carriers had the Mk.24 mine. It wasn't a mine at all but a homing torpedo used as a U-Boat was diving because it was a sitting duck at that point
That has got to be one of the most frightening experieces to be attacked from the air while on a sub.
mosquitoman
Master Sergeant
You would be absolutely helpless in a crash-dive waiting for the hull to be ripped apart
Yeap the only thing worse I believe is beign depth charged.
MP-Willow
Staff Sergeant
Dear Alder, and how much different from depth charges is it?
Thanks for the help with the East Coast diffence, I did noe know the CAP was formed for U-boat work. I still have a lot of reading to do. It seems hard to beleave that the US coast could be so open like that
Thanks for the help with the East Coast diffence, I did noe know the CAP was formed for U-boat work. I still have a lot of reading to do. It seems hard to beleave that the US coast could be so open like that
You're a bomber crewmen, Mission for today is Berlin or Merseburg...A thousand Flak batteries and a thousand German fighters await you..You can fly in a squadron B-17s, B-24s or Lancs...You'd really like to see your family again...Which do you choose??????If range, fuel economy and payload are to be the primary considerations, perhaps we should send in a fleet of zepplins...They have greater payloads then Lancs or B-29s even and use very little fuel to get there..Their range is unlimitted.....If you can't fight thru the defences to the target, it hardly matters how many bombs you can carry.....5000# of bombs delivered on target is better then 20000# in smouldering wreakage in a Bavarian cornfield....
mosquitoman
Master Sergeant
Zeppelins are very slow and would be VERY vulnerable to flak and enemy fighters, they would work on short channel-hops but that's about it
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
One incendiary, a giant cigar!
mosquitoman
Master Sergeant
Yep!
the lancaster kicks ass
Major General
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my God! you actually believe that!! there's no way a zepplin could carry a grand slam.......
MP-Willow
Staff Sergeant
I will take B-24s with P-47's as my escort! Just as long as we do not fly to Polesti I will go anywhere
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
the lancaster kicks ass said:
I think THAT would look very funny! A Zepplin trying to carry a grand slam!
If it did get off the ground, I'd like to see what happens when the Zepplin releases it! 40,000 feet in 3.2 seconds! 
Talk about ballast! 
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