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Old 12-24-10, 12:46 PM   #9
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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.
I belive they didn't have anything that could escort that far into Germany, maybe the YAK-9 if it had drop tanks. It had roughly the same range as a Jug. But as for tactics they could have been tough to the Russians.
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