{"id":27,"date":"2013-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/11\/post-20-ten-us-bombers\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:00:00","slug":"post-20-ten-us-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/11\/post-20-ten-us-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-20: Ten U.S. Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"
The April 10th issue of the Korea Herald<\/em>  has a curious listing on its “Today in History” section:<\/div>\n

\nWorld<\/strong><\/font>
\n1945: German Me 262 jet fighters shoots  [sic] down 10 U.S. bombers near Berlin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>\"Picture\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Germany’s Me-262 “Sparrow”<\/div>\n
I lived in Berlin for six months. I’ve sometimes wondered what it was like to be there in April of ’45. But my real question is: Why would a detail of the action of WWII, like this, qualify for anyone’s “Today in History”?<\/p>\n

Some googling leads me to several possible<\/span> answers: (1) The Me-262 was the world’s first jet aircraft, (2) losing ten bombers on a single day may have been a very high one-day loss, (3) maybe whoever chose this factoid simply wanted to note that the Germans still had it together enough at such a late date to manage to shoot down ten in one go-’round<\/p>\n

On #2: According to this<\/a>, the U.S. 8th Air Force, which flew bombers against Germany, lost 4,145 bombers in the war.
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The 8th flew Mission #1 on 17 August 1942 when 12 B-17s attacked Rouen Marshalling yards and the last mission on 8 May 1945 Mission #986, when 12 B-17s dropped leaflets in Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the USA lost 4,145 bombers in the time period above-delineated, that comes to 4.2 bombers lost per day. Losing ten on one day (April 10th, ’45) is not particularly dramatic. Again according to this<\/a>, the highest single-day bomber loss was in 1943, when 60 were lost in one day.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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