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Subject: Re: Dirigibles & airships
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Date: 27 Jun 91 01:37:02 GMT
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From: 002@pnet16.cts.com (J.W.Cupp Lcdr/Usn)
mruxb!patter@bellcore.bellcore.com writes:
>On the issue of sending B-17 gunships over Germany. Yes, it was tried.
>The ship was called the B-17F. According to a book I have by Jablonski,
I have Jablonski's book, too.  As I recall, there's an anecdote about the
gunships, in which one was fashioned 'in the trenches' of the Italian theatre.
 Seems an Italian pilot had gotten ahold of a captured P-38 and was bringing
down far too many Allied aircraft, so B-17 gunship was used as bait to trap
him.  (It's been a long time since I read it...hope I have the details correct
;-)  ).
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