User:Edweirdo/Maximum reported B-17 & B-24 bomb loads
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Maximum reported B-17 & B-24 bomb loads is a summary of available data from published mission reports of the US Air Forces personnel in Europe during World War II of the heaviest bomb loads carried by the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator as well as the weight of bombs each carried to their most distant targets. The purpose is to tie information of the relative effectiveness of the two bombers to real data and actual practice.[1] To find data for this comparison, crew members’ first-hand mission reports posted to the web, and accounts reported in books written about daylight bombing in Europe in World War II, were searched for greater-than-average bomb loads and extra-long-range targets. These data were sorted to find the heaviest loads carried and the most distant targets bombed.
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