I didn't mean to imply that, and you have my apologies. Believe me -- if I think someone is stupid, I will say so, directly. That said, I don't...
The submarine campaign had already put paid to the inter-island traffic inside Japan proper. The B-29 mining gave a good assist on that. The nukes...
To get more range out of a bigger round (M2 upgraded to .60cal), you will need a bigger charge in each round, necessitating an enlargement of...
You can go back to the 30 Years' War for evidence that civilians are almost always caught in the crossfire of a war.
I've got is saved to HDD but haven't watched it yet. Probably watch it tonight.
I think at the end of the war, fighter performance started outstripping the ability of aerial cannons to provide sufficient hits through...
Not denigrating their defensive prowess, just pointing out the Luftwaffe fighters aren't the topic. It may be that one or more of those fighters...
I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but the gunners on those bombers were operating defensive weapons. Luftwaffe fighter pilots, not so much....
I know little about gunsmithy so have no idea which approach would yield a lighter gun. I do know that the ammunition was initially larger that...
The topic, though, is "heavy bomber defensive weapons". Introducing a comparison to LW fighter overclaiming is indeed apples-to-oranges.
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Exactly, and positing one possible factor. If I remember rightly, the .60 mount weighed almost as much as a 20mm, with a shell almost as large...
The fact that any other forces also overclaimed has no bearing on the idea that bomber gunners in particular may have been overclaiming because...
I've already repeated it once. Scroll up.
My point wasn't about actual kills at all, so the relevance outside of the disproportionate claims themselves is vanishingly small. Thanks anyway,...
"Um", none of that minutiae addresses my actual point. When you feel like doing that, let me know.
My point was that massive overclaiming by American gunners (288 claimed vs 31 actual to use your figure) was present there, and that multiple...
Unjustified, in my book.
On the other hand, how many LW fighters were claimed at 1st Schweinfurt, vs actual LW loss tallies? According to AirForceMagazine.com: The Cost...
