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Originally Posted by Larry deZeng
John: Why does "60 missions for a fighter pilot and 30 missions for a bomber pilot" stick in my decaying and mold-riddled brain cells? Where did I get that from? Could that have been an early policy that was done away with, or perhaps a new policy that came along toward the end of the war? Or maybe I am just halucinating? But I swear I read that somewhere years ago.
L.
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I reckon it's because bomber crews had a much "harder row to hoe" they had a shorter (IE: survivable) tour of duty, while the fighters had a longer time to fly-especially as they suffered lower casualties & were often much more aggressive.