Are there any good accounts on how some of these large bombing operations looked in WW2?
I've read numerous accounts of He111s or B17's going out by the hundreds to carpet bomb an area, but it sounds like a logistical nightmare trying to taxi, takeoff, form up, formation fly, and land. Especially with the accounts of 500+ planes... I would almost expect they would fly in separate formations or in waves, and have to take off from separate airfields and rendezvous.
I'm just kind of curious. WW2 was fought on a ridiculously large scale that it's difficult to comprehend. (Especially some of the Eastern Front fighting... 3 million men around Kursk... jeeze)
Anyone have some accounts of some of the (seemingly) mundane details of large bombing operations?
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