Questioned: What Must It Have Been Like To Fly In A WWII Daylight Bomber Raid? | DCS 

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hi! been following the conflict and apart from wargames scenario, brazil is (as of right now) more inclined into supporting venezuela (not military) than helping guyana, although i personaly disagree with this position (am brazilian). only thing so far is: the armed forces won't let venezuela invade brazil to get into guyana's territory, despite whatever the government wants. and, the govt will "vouch for peace" and mediate as an actor, but to keep "imperialists" and "outsiders" out of the region (which is venezuelan rhetoric). despite the president of guyana really trusting the brazilian diplomacy (he shouldn't). if it was bound to happen, it was more likely the UK and the US were the ones to help Guyana with Brazil just protecting it's territory and claiming both parties to come to a ceasefire. anyway, just to put this out there. and so far, despite tensions, both parties kinda seem to be on an agreement, so let's hope for the best.

@@grimreapers just found out your channel, really like it

Brazil? de lula -chavez-maduro? pffff

You Brazilians always find a way to insert yourselves even though you’re totally irrelevant.

if u havent watched masters of the air it pretty much sums up what your uncle went trough in the b17 i wont give u spoilers but its really eye opening

Then he is a war criminal for knowingly targeting civilian populations

@@adambane1719 yeah ok buddy,

@@t.r.4496 Oops, meant to address my post to the other guy

@@gandalfgreyhame3425 I was giving him the ok for him thinking it was a war crime. And my uncle wasn't a bombardier anyway. So at no point did he drop a bomb.

It's long overdue really.

Lancaster mod is in the works thankfully - hopefully it is a proof of concept for four engine WW2 bombers and the C130 mod will further prove a 4 engine plane is desired

And, of course, once you have Lancs in the sim, you can reenact all kinds of difficult and dangerous missions. I'm thinking 617 squadron . . .

@@nigeldepledge3790Well that's another level of customisation to have the bouncing bombs... but I'd love to see a Nightfighter version of the Mossie...

@slammerf16 - yes, it would be; but, oddly enough, I wasn't thinking about Operation Chastise this time. I was thinking about what 617 squadron did in '44 and '45 with Tallboys and Grand Slams.

Amen to that

I was going to point that out myself. They called it the "Flying Fortress" so...

They lived up to the name of _fliegende Stachelschwein_ - the flying porcupine!

​@@matthewcox7985they also called the Short Sunderland that, for about the same reason...10+ machine guns

The original "Flying Porcupine" so named by the Germans was the British Short Sunderland 4-engined flying boat, which started the war with 8 machine guns, and eventually had up to 16 of them! German Bf 110 and Ju 88 fighters found it a very prickly target over the North Sea and N. Atlantic...

To be fair those are turrets the mosquito just has fixed forward guns so he probably did it to keep everyone from acting out the fighter half of the mosquito’s role. They’d have to maneuver and dogfight to get firing solutions the b17’s don’t

for those who are familiar with the B-17, could it ditch in the channel if it couldnt make it to base? Are there any records of this happenning, if it ran out of fuel or battle damage?

Is that anything like the series "12 O'Clock High?" Cause I have seen several episodes

The night fighter mozzies were part of 100 Gp, which also included the electronic warfare squadrons. It is a fascinating story how all this came to be.

@@alanholck7995 guy Gibson transferred to pathfinders

Funnily enough, the Pathfinder method the mossies used was invented by Wg Cdr Leonard Cheshire in a 617 sqdn Lancaster! He had to fight hard to get a mossie, once he proved the concept........

Sometimes right the next day.

It was insanely terrifying. More bomber crew were killed than the entire causality count for the Marines during the whole war. You pretty much had a 50/50 chance of ever getting home alive.

The quirky weirdness of "Catch 22" suddenly makes a LOT more sense.

...and with every noisy appliance in the house turned on and the volume on max.

@@badwolftx2139 "WHAT?"

Didn't look like the B17 gunners did much.

@@hanrockabrand95 Exactly!!! 🤣😅

And then drop the bombs way off target 😂

They were a big part of the war. But the design seems pretty flawed overall and the concept of daylight precision bombing was a total joke. Without the factories and country churning out planes and men, it would not have worked.

And I'm convinced Cap is Miles Jupp.

B-17 The Flying Fortress !

I think the idea is that the Mozzie’s guns only point forward, which would be too tempting for the players to break formation and chase down enemy fighters. This way they stay with the formation so we get a better taste of what it may have been like to fly with a bomber raid.

The mosquito has only fixed forward facing guns to use them they’d have to break formation and start dogfighting

Unfortunately

Memphis Belle was much better. Masters of air is just CGI average series

Was he the driver?

Oh yes I remember.

That is where the G model comes from.....with the chin turret of 2 .50s

Blood sausage?

Black pudding in England

Germans drink the strangest things.

Yarp

They did. It was awful, so they moved to night time and told the USAAF a couple of years later that daylight bombing without escorts was suicide. It took a while for the message to sink in.

Good Lord...

You also have the Schweinfurt ball bearing factory raids, the raids over Romanian oil fields, the raid on Munster, and all the other raids that happened during the infamous "Black Week". There is one account of the rear tail gunner that got trapped in the tail section when it was shot off. He rode that thing all the way to the ground. Ground crews were able to rescue him, and his command saw fit to put him back up in the air the very next day.