How accurate was B-26 bombing?

Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?

What you talking about?....there's still one building and a few trees standing



BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

Subject: How accurate was B-26 bombing?
From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 3/2/04 4:33 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?

What you talking about?....there's still one building and a few trees
standing



BUFDRVR


hole in the pattern


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

hole in the pattern

Nope, either mil dispersion or it was not in line with the DMPI. IIRC, my
formation went directly across (using the picture either top to bottom or left
to right), it looks like the 2-ship who followed us (later that evening), just
dropped 90-degrees out from us, effectively making a +. Appears that building
may have been spared by targeting....or mil dispersion, can't tell.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

Subject: How accurate was B-26 bombing?
From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 3/2/04 5:23 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

hole in the pattern

Nope, either mil dispersion or it was not in line with the DMPI. IIRC, my
formation went directly across (using the picture either top to bottom or
left
to right), it looks like the 2-ship who followed us (later that evening),
just
dropped 90-degrees out from us, effectively making a +. Appears that building
may have been spared by targeting....or mil dispersion, can't tell.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it
harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

Thanks for the rundown. As I have said before my last mission was in 1945
with some practice missions in the Army of Occupation (North Sea Gunnery Range)
in 1946. What you describe is totally unfamiliar to me. It is interesting to
see how things are done now.




Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer