From: "Pete"
Date: 8/23/2004 9:38 PM Central Daylight Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote
Subject: Fly tight for tight bomb patterns on the ground.
From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 8/23/2004 4:13 PM Pacific Standard Time

In 1937, with career Army Air Corps crews, over Arizona with little wind
it
worked great! In 1943 with crews that had been in service 18 months, over
Germany with flak and fighters...not so well.

How the hell would you know?

Except a two mile long train of B-17s looks like donuts rolling off the
production line to an Me-109 pilot.


We never flew in "long trains". What rinky dink air force were you in?
Not
ours for sure. Too bad you never fought in a real war.

Jeez, Art! He was *agreeing* with you.

Pete

If art wanted to experience a real war I would have been glad to oblige by
having him next to me when I was in the Army in Viet Nam. Granted we had a
greater survival rate than the AAF did (before he got there) but he had a bed
to sleep in, hot meals and cold drinks. I don't think he would have lasted even
if he was 18 as I was.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired