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Re: Stukas and HMS Illustrious.
Hello Jim
No, what I’m saying is that the info on target specified the load and release height but in the end it’s up to pilots. They seemed to prefer maximum accuracy. Why, you guess is as good as mine. Possibilities: the reason of attack is getting hits, it’s frustrating to risk one life in attack and miss, it’s more macho to release at low level than at high level. See British comments on 10 Jan attack against Illustrious, all seem to admire the low height releases by Stuka pilots, they dived so low. It is part of military ethos to take risks to achieve results, dropping bombs higher is safer and so also less admired among pilots, whatever higher hierarchy says. That’s true also generally among young men, one of the reasons why more young men die in traffic accidents than young women.
Juha
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