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as a bomber-killer, 1x30mm and 2x20mm would have taken a toll on the American bombers.
From what I understand, if it came to that in the ETO, it would have been a "Silverplate" equivellant Lancaster.Pretty hard to defend Germany against a single Silverplate B29.
On Mark Felton's YouTube channel he has a video on the B-29 in the ETO.From what I understand, if it came to that in the ETO, it would have been a "Silverplate" equivellant Lancaster.
* Not trying to be funny here, guys - it wouldn't have been politics as much as the Germans were savvy to any new type of aircraft in the theater and a B-29 would have been of particular interest to them.
German proper was well within the Lanc's heavy-lift range. I beleive this aspect was touched on in another thread in some detail.
It was a YB-29 (41-36963) "Hobo Queen" that briefly visited England and it was a diversionary tactic, to draw the German's attention from the Southern route that operational B-29s of the 20th AF were taking to their staging areas in China.On Mark Felton's YouTube channel he has a video on the B-29 in the ETO.
It was a YB-29 (41-36963) "Hobo Queen" that briefly visited England and it was a diversionary tactic, to draw the German's attention from the Southern route that operational B-29s of the 20th AF were taking to their staging areas in China.
I didn't want to give away the plot.It was a YB-29 (41-36963) "Hobo Queen" that briefly visited England and it was a diversionary tactic, to draw the German's attention from the Southern route that operational B-29s of the 20th AF were taking to their staging areas in China.
The Japanese soon found out!D@mn, those B-29s were good.
Now just imagine what would've happen if the Germans found out that B-29s will be coming in from China...
This is a what-if thread. What if the Germans held out long enough to produce the TA-152 in significant numbers, and what if that resilience led the USAAF to deploy the B-29 to Europe? How do you think these airplanes would stack up?
I think the numerical superiority of P-51s in the escort role would have made the German mission hard to achieve, but I think that as a bomber-killer, 1x30mm and 2x20mm would have taken a toll on the American bombers. Would the TA-152 be able to work in numbers against escorted formations? Or -- on an equal playing-field, without industrial statistics involved -- would it have been up to the job?
I'm interested in reading the thinking of the cognescenti here.