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Originally Posted by tcolvin
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
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Another small point, but I didn't question accuracy of dive bombers, they were very accurate.
However regards this posting we are not questioning the accuracy of a dive bomber vs a Blenhiem, what would be interesting is a comparison of a dive bomber vs a Typhoon or a P47. Vengeances were replaced by the P47 in RAF service presumably for good reasons and one of those would be that the Fighter Bomber had a good enough accuracy, maybe not as good as a Dive Bomber but good enough.