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- May 24, 2022
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It's not - that photo was from the Ploesti Raid, you can probably guess the altitude based on the height of the smoke stacks. I don't think 200-800 feet is "medium altitude." Some of the returning B-24 came back from Ploesti with wheat stalks in their bomb bays when they were egressing the target area.That photo looks like medium altitude. My father said that B-24's(Jolly Rogers) and PB4Y's operating from Mindoro up to the China coast sometimes came back with tree limbs. That is low altitude. They were supposed to be looking for shipping so you wonder if they were just hot dogging over the land.
Read the same thing, I think Jablownski mentions this when he covered Ploesti in the series "Air War." IIRC I believe the nose and rear gunners carried extra ammo for this.I can't remember where I read it, but I distinctly remember reading that the gunners on the bombers were "dueling" with AAA crews on the ground.
Read the same thing, I think Jablownski mentions this when he covered Ploesti in the series "Air War."