Date: 04 Nov 2002 20:52:17 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current marcketting name? Message-ID: <88y988pqim.988@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021104211115.GA40027@tara.freenix.org> References: <3DC6DB51.C0C18AEF@mindspring.com> <XFMail.20021104154558.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20021104211115.GA40027@tara.freenix.org>
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Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> writes:
> Even B-29 were not that much used during WWII, most of the big US bombers
> were B-17 (Flying Fortress).
The citizens of Tokyo who looked up to see more than 1000 B-29s over
their city at once would probably think they WERE used "that" much.
From Oct'44 onward, the horrors dropped on the cities of Japan by B-29s
in the form of high explosives and incendiary bombs (eg, white
phosphorus and Napalm) make some people consider the A-bombs humane by
comparison. That part of history is too often hidden by the shadows of
mushroom clouds. The B-29s were used over other Pacific islands too.
Most of the big (AKA "heavy") bombers were B-24s (Liberators):
B-17 12700
B-24 19200
B-29 4000 (some after WWII)
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