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The one pilot they highlighted in the series completed his missions in European theater (to be fair he only flew a few when the Allied casualty rate was horrend
by stevenwoo 1y ago
The one pilot they highlighted in the series completed his missions in European theater (to be fair he only flew a few when the Allied casualty rate was horrendous) then signed up to serve again and volunteered for B-29 training so he could fight in the Pacific but the war ended before he could fly missions against Japan. IIRC he then volunteered to help with the Nuremberg prosecutions.
- pfdietz 1y agoBy the end of the war the loss rate in B-29 missions over Japan was lower than the loss rate in B-29 training missions in the US.