soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Feb 29, 1:08 pm, Bombardier wrote:
> Were the B-25's too lightly armored to survive the flak fields over
> Germany and therefor shipped out to the Med and pacific theatres and
> replaced by the heavlity armored B-26?

I don't know, but I just looked at the Maurer Maurer book "WWII Combat
Squadrons of the USAF" and found a few instances of B-25 units having
credit for service in both the MTO and the ETO. I had always been
under the impression myself that few, if any, B-25s were ever assigned
to the ETO in the first place, but I guess I was mistaken. I have
certainly never seen the sort of photos of those types in that theater
that one can easily find of the B-26. It's still my suspicion,
though, that the B-25s did -not- serve long or in large numbers in the
ETO. (I'm referring to US planes, of course, not RAF or French or
whatever.)

I had also speculated that the 25 was an appreciably older design than
the 26, but apparently I was wrong about that too.

Narr