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Old 12th May 2011, 13:09
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Re: Response to Glider and Juha.

You ask, Glider, what I mean by 'accuracy'.

My answer is identical to that given by Squadron Leader Arthur Murland Gill of 84 Squadron RAF (who experienced operating Blenheims and Vengeances) when interviewed by Peter C Smith;
"Dive-bombing with the Vengeance in Burma taught us what it meant to be accurate. For example, to take out vital bridges, I could usually send a couple of Vengeances in with the almost guaranteed certainty that the bridge would be demolished, whereas with the Blenheim I could take the squadron against the same target day after day and rarely, if ever, score a hit."

Tony