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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Nice, very nice. Those 15 planes could carry enough fire power to bring just about any country to its knee's.
Now imagin them doing that with B17's except dozens of them, 1k+ ships overhead must have been a sight!
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According to my rough calculations* you'd need 200 B17s to carry the same bomb load as those 15 B52s.
* Bomb load of 80,000 lbs for the BUFF, vs. 6,000 for the B17; former figure I remember from a book I read a long time ago, latter appears in a WWII book I'm reading now.
15 x 80,000 = 1,200,000
1,200,000/6,000 = 200
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