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2nd October 2005, 21:14

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Re: He 177 Operations?

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Originally Posted by HeinkelBomber

This bomber was notoriously dangerous to fly given its fire vulnerability but I always thought the basic design was magnificent. It had a lot of potential but suffered from poor internal configuration.

My own "Kampfflieger Volume 4" (Classic Publications 2005) includes a quotation from an RAF report on captured He 177 crewmen that rather contradicts this image of it being a death trap.

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