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From: Bill Shatzer
Date: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Were the B-25's too lightly armored?
From: Bill Shatzer
Date: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Were the B-25's too lightly armored?
Bombardier wrote:
>>I had also speculated that the 25 was an appreciably older design than
>>the 26, but apparently I was wrong about that too.
>>
>>Narr
>
>
> Nope you were right about that. The B-26 was the latest and best
> medium bomber in our arsenal made possible by the excellant P&W R-2800
> engines wjhich also powered the P-47 (JUG)
I had thought both the B-25 and the B-26 arose from the same 1939 USAAF
specification and request for proposals and thus the two designs were
roughly contemporaneous.
Of course, the North American design borrowed heavily from the earlier
NA-40B design - but then, I'd suppose that the Martin bomber borrowed
heavily from earlier Martin studies and designs as well.
Cheers,
