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Re: Bomber Aces
Fair enough, I'll accept that. Dunham is indeed an excellent example of a crew member doing multiple tours. And he would have been included as one of the couple of thousand that I referred to above.
I find it really odd though that it wasn't a practice that the Americans were keen to emulate. They seemed to have had a totally different mind set to the war. And I'm wondering what the contributing factors may have been.
Was it...
a) partly due to the excessive manpower that the Americans poccessed, negating the need for multiply tours
b) perhaps coming late to the War, and fighting it many thousands of miles from their own land, they didn't quite have the committment that existed in both the British and German air forces
c) or was it that they had a more workman like approach to the war i.e. do the job and go home.
I find the whole thing very interesting.
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