Just a general comment....
Quote:
Of 705 B-17s, 567 bomb Munich, 43 hit Schleissheim Airfield, 36 hit
aircraft engine plants at Munich-Allach and 4 hit targets of opportunity; 10
B-17s are lost and 331 damaged;
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331 damaged and 10 lost, almost HALF the force deployed.....
Seems astounding - either those B17's were tough old crates or the damage seems almost as much by cross fire than attacking aircraft.
I know the USAAF had enormous numbers of bombers, but surely those amounts of damaged aircraft must have impacted the crews, let alone the airframes.