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Old 12-24-10, 11:01 AM   #8
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Did the Russians even have a plane that could reach that far in to Germany? Its about 1200 miles from Moscow to Berlin. The Pe-8 is the only thing that comes close besides the 800 or so B-25s we gave them.

Also just as important the Russians didn't have a fighter that could escort them. At this time we had the Mustang to escort our bombers. So with out escort what are they going to do? Fly at night? They didn't have anything like the Oboe system and Pathfinders like the British had so it would be blind luck to hit anything.

So no, it would have been a dismal failure to try.
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