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Old 14 August 2009, 03:29 AM   #9 (permalink)
LeicesterTiger
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The bits with the Handley Page bombers got my back up a bit, as i'm currently writing a book about them. The daylight scene featuring them shows them flying over the front in broad daylight at low level, judging by how quick one of them that gets shot down crashes into the ground. I haven't come across any reference of them operating in daylight for starters, and they were flown at about 4-6000 feet even at night. In the night time scene it shows them flying in formation - which didn't. They took off at intervals so to avoid the chances of collision, using the big sky theory. Both scenes show the front gunner, but not the rear armament which would have either one or two gunners for protection. I've never heard of Richtofen indulging in night fighting either
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