Beaver wrote:
Darryl wrote:
If you are heading in on a bombing run, make contact with the group that is supposed to be covering you, simply giving location does not always alert the fighters that you need cover shortly.
I'm sorry, Beaver, but that doesn't make a bit of sense to me. We give our position to you AND the fighters on ingress, so that, you know exactly where we are. Everyone already knows that we are a bomber group and need fighter cover. No alert necessary. We are vulnerable to attack at all times. I would expect that the frame CO and the fighters would be in position to protect us. If they can't do so, THEY should be alerting US, in order for us to make adjustments. As I recall, we were in contact with the fighters who were actually having us divert our course from time-to-time, which we did.
So, my question now is, were they over us when we were losing 8 bombers or not? If so, what can we do differently in frame 3? If not, why not? And, what can we do differently in frame 3?
Sincerely,
Darryl <S>
CO of Doolittle's Raiders