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Originally Posted by Furio
At Peleliu, Corsairs probably flew the shortest bombing missions ever. The target was less than two miles away from airfield, and pilots hadn’t even time to retract landing gear. So what we would need is not missions number, but mission duration, hard to get, I think. Then enemy opposition should be factored, even harder to do reliably.
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You can sort of figure out mission duration by number of sorties in a day, and, of course, distance from home airfield to the front lines.
Pilot logs contain all that information, but we almost never get to see them.
Degree of opposition could be inferred from maintenance logs - which record damaged and missing aircraft. But, I'm not sure that such data exists anymore.
12-29-2015, 09:53 PM
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