Holocaust- Bomb The Tracks?

[*bengalfan74*]

(10-13-2019, 08:41 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: That points to the fact that I've been saying and that's that it's not like we'd be redirecting our entire air force to the destruction of the tracks and it wouldn't have taken many planes or resources to bomb them.

It would, however, take men and resources away from the Germans in order to repair them.

Brad do you even know how many bombing missions were considered largely ineffective at strategic high level bombing of German and Japanese factories that had acres and acres under roof ? A bunch !

Now you're talking hitting RR tracks that are nowhere near the size of a large scale aircraft factory. You think a couple B17's could just tear up miles of track ? Every bomb is a direct hit from 25,000 feet ?

Look up how many planes attacked the Japanese Carriers at Midway then how many hits they got. Granted a moving target but still an aircraft carrier !

Take the P47 Thunderbolt in a tactical bombing role. I forget exactly but the % of hits they got on German Armor is like 10% or something, perhaps even less ?

Just as an example its roughly 930 miles from Paris France to Auschwitz Poland. Here's the max range of the P47:


The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 pounds. Wikipedia


Top speed: 433 mph
Wingspan: 41′ 0″
Weight: 10,000 lbs
Range: 801.6 mi
Engine type: Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp
Variants: Republic XP-72
Did you know: With over 15,600 aircraft manufactured, more Thunderbolts were built than any other fighter. warbirdsnews.com


800 hundred miles, late in the war they increased the range but still.


Again it sounds good on paper, yes just bomb the tracks. In practice it's not anywhere near as easy as you portray.