[RSwank]

SteveB,
Good points. I was looking at the staggered takeoffs and wondering what that meant. I wonder if we are misreading some of the terms. I don't know what seven Liberators flying together at 1000 ft, 20 miles off the coast of Norway would be doing, but maybe a single Liberator equipped with ASV radar is searching for surface shipping. Maybe there was more than one Liberator, but each had a separate search/patrol area. Maybe they/it orbited in a set area over a period of hours, so the escort fighters would replace each other. I wonder if 1000 feet up and 20 miles off the coast is just the right altitude to be able to scan "up to the coast" but not get interference from the coast itself. Questions... Questions....