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Mike Scholl -> DOESN'T SEEM ODD... (10/27/2003 9:54:46 PM)
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[QUOTE=Luskan]
I don't care how tough the b17 is, if there are only 3 of them, they are low, slow, inexperienced, flying over a major IJ airbase on a bombing run and they are bounced by 20 zeroes . . . well 2 zeroes damaged and 2 b17s damaged doesn't sit right with me.[/QUOTE]
Not sure they often flew over MAJOR Japanese airbases in the early months of
the war, but they made a number of "attacks" on Japanese Shipping trying to
land troops and supplies in various places that had CAP flying. The results
you quote don't look that unbelievable if from the Japanese Report. Their
fighter pilots speak almost with awe at the time about the difficulties of shoot-
ing down a B-17 "for credit". But the American records show that a lot of the
"damaged" bombers that were able to fly away also "pulled a Colin Kelly" and
were unable to land on return. So actually what your result may mean is that
one B-17 crashed, one made it back, but was unflyable for several days, and
one was left available for the next mission.
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