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Hello there, Spectre311. Welcome. That's just another clickbait title to get more views. There's so much written about the B-17, and other great planes, that creators have to come up with something.I Just found this thread and I thought I'd contribute as part of my first post. I think the B-17 was worthy of its accolades and history does prove that it was a workhorse that helped win the war...and I guess this guy's video is another part of the debate. Make if it what you will.
The title was enough to convince me it wasn't worth watching. Welcome, BTW.I Just found this thread and I thought I'd contribute as part of my first post. I think the B-17 was worthy of its accolades and history does prove that it was a workhorse that helped win the war...and I guess this guy's video is another part of the debate. Make if it what you will.
Thanks for the welcome. And yes I guess being contrarian in today's history circles seems to be the going trend.Hello there, Spectre311. Welcome. That's just another clickbait title to get more views. There's so much written about the B-17, and other great planes, that creators have to come up with something.
You've got some free time now. Get on it!I'm waiting for a "Top Ten Aircraft Not Mentioned In A Top Ten Video " video.
I'll see if I can get a hold of Professor Propwash.You've got some free time now. Get on it!
Guy's a genius.I'll see if I can get a hold of Professor Propwash.
The early Allisson engined Mustangs were not relegated by the RAF, they were the only plane capable of doing the tactical recon job they wanted to do which was more than ground attack. They would have taken more Allisson engined Mustangs right up to the end of the war, but production lines were changed so there werent any.Again, time and role: early on the first B-24s were great patrolling convoys in the mid-ocean gap, while early B-17s were duds. The first P-51s were relegated by the Brits to ground attack, and the Russians turned up their noses at the finicky Spitfire.
You were far from safe anywhere in UK. Deaths from road traffic accidents were at record highs 9,146 in 1941. My mothers school, literally in the middle of nowhere in rural North Yorkshire was hit by the engine from a crashed Wellington on a training flight. Only one relative of my wife was lost in WW2, he got back from Dunkerque and was run over by a bus in blacked out London.Venturas and Hudson operated from Britain. In the case of the Hudson from the beginning of the war and the Ventura later on.
One might wonder if a city subject to aerial bombing every year from 1940 onwards, the subject of regular cruise missile attacks and international ballistic missiles and forty miles short of German artillery fire extreme range was that 'comfy'?
A French relative, who was with the Free French army for much of the war, was criticised in his home village post war for being 'safe' in London whilst 'we' had the Germans to deal with. He pointed out the above, the death and serious injury toll in tens of thousands with tens of thousands of homes destroyed or rendered uninhabitable and that the village toll was one old lady knocked over by a German motorcycle and badly bruised. BTW he was far from in 'safe' London and active in North Africa, Italy, across France and the push into Germany.