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[fpgt72]

B-24’s bombed Dresden….I would also add it was a better bomber than the B-17, the 17 got all the glory though.

I would agree as well, thought most of the 24's hung around the south, screwing with stuff from the "soft underside". I knew of a couple groups in europe, but it was not the majority. I think that they are also more common because of the range in the Pacific.

Got to step back and think of the world back then, when everything needed needed a long boat ride to get where that nut or bolt was needed. Just makes sense to "standardize" on a given type. Why ship 17 and 24 parts when you could just ship 17 parts and more of them.

I had forgotten the 24 in northern europe, they where not the norm there.

 

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[Jscb1b]

I would agree as well, thought most of the 24's hung around the south, screwing with stuff from the "soft underside". I knew of a couple groups in europe, but it was not the majority. I think that they are also more common because of the range in the Pacific.

Got to step back and think of the world back then, when everything needed needed a long boat ride to get where that nut or bolt was needed. Just makes sense to "standardize" on a given type. Why ship 17 and 24 parts when you could just ship 17 parts and more of them.

I had forgotten the 24 in northern europe, they where not the norm there.

So why is the b-24 the most produced bomber ever?

 

[fpgt72]

So why is the b-24 the most produced bomber ever?

Is my comment wrong?

 

[Lawless]

 

[ZiaHunter]

Is my comment wrong?

B-24's had a bigger bomb load, faster and longer range than the B-17. Although based in northern Europe they were primarily deployed in northern Africa and Italy. B-24's were used on the raids on Ploesti in which they suffered staggering loss rates. Later in the war the 15th based out of Italy suffered heavy losses on raids on Austria and Germany. One of the reasons crewman liked the 17 was it could withstand more damage than the 24. Basically bomber crews were just flying targets.

 

[oldshooterback]

Photo taken in November 2022, Lake Erie, looks like the god Poseidon

 

[Pharmseller]

How do we know what Poseidon looks like?

This pic looks more like my cousin George.

 

[cas6969]

 

[EddieNFL]

Photo taken in November 2022, Lake Erie, looks like the god Poseidon

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Or the oceanic version of the Mummy.

 

[EddieNFL]

How do we know what Poseidon looks like?

This pic looks more like my cousin George.

Good shot of him releasing the Kraken in Clash of the Titans.

 

[Dead Eye Dick]

 

[Dead Eye Dick]

 

[Dead Eye Dick]

 

[fpgt72]

B-24's had a bigger bomb load, faster and longer range than the B-17. Although based in northern Europe they were primarily deployed in northern Africa and Italy. B-24's were used on the raids on Ploesti in which they suffered staggering loss rates. Later in the war the 15th based out of Italy suffered heavy losses on raids on Austria and Germany. One of the reasons crewman liked the 17 was it could withstand more damage than the 24. Basically bomber crews were just flying targets.

So I was right in saying they had a very small presence in england. Keeping them in different theatres made the supply of parts much more easy.

I don't disagree with anything you said, my point was the 24 did not have a large deployment in northern europe, they are used where the range was needed.

 

[fpgt72]

Photo taken in November 2022, Lake Erie, looks like the god Poseidon

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The thing that hit me roughly 40 years ago when I first saw the great lakes are just how darn big they are. Those things are oceans to a boy from Missouri.

 

[Kamerad]

My son Gunnar, 3.5 weeks old. Best day of my life.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

 

[Lawless]

 

[Cowpokey]

 

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[Kamerad]

Oh c’mon, Sig is really overextending themselves.
Tomorrow we’ll hear about the new M5 Meatball adopted by the US Army.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

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Oh c’mon, Sig is really overextending themselves.
Tomorrow we’ll hear about the new M5 Meatball adopted by the US Army.

Can I put a red dot on these?

SIrhr

 

[MadDuner]

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Oh c’mon, Sig is really overextending themselves.
Tomorrow we’ll hear about the new M5 Meatball adopted by the US Army.

That might be OK, but I heard their fruit is kinda Sauer.

 

[SONIC SAAMI]

Oh, look everybody another one of those world famous Oregon Autobahn Highways.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Plus you have to hit it a couple of times...

Sirhr

 

[jmp1]

Them kids getin raised right!!

 

[Lawless]

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Oh c’mon, Sig is really overextending themselves.
Tomorrow we’ll hear about the new M5 Meatball adopted by the US Army.

Indian MIM meatballs?

 

[Longshot231]

When I read things like that, I wonder who REALLY won the cold war.

 

[Lawless]

 

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[Lawless]

Painted between 35000 and 15000 BC
The cave of Altamira Spain

 

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[Longshot231]

Painted between 35000 and 15000 BC
The cave of Altamira Spain

 

[Lawless]

 

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[cas6969]

 

[sirhrmechanic]

And they all became cougars…

Sirhr

 

[Lawless]

Laugh every time I see it

 

[mtrmn]

That your grandson?

 

[Lawless]

 

[K470]

Nope

It worked for me but I had to keep the browser from blocking it.

 

[LeftyJason]

Laugh every time I see it

But you're missing the actual trippy pictures.

Human vision

Dinosaur vision

Artist of all 3 is James Gurney. Pics I posted are from the book Dinotopia.