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Originally Posted by Graf Paper
ASW Aircraft with field artillery mounted? 
Putting tank busters on ASW patrols is just plain wrong! 
PLEASE tell us you didn't add that B-25 in GWX!  |
Hi!
The B-25G's successor, the B-25H, was a purpose-built strafing machine, with a 75mm cannon, eight forward-firing 0.50-caliber machine guns, eight 5-inch air-to-ground rockets, and six 500-lb bombs; however, the 75mm cannon was not that successful in either aircraft since the bomber could only get off about four shots on each strafing run, and the gun had a strong recoil. Fortunately for most of you U-boat skippers, it was used primarily in the Pacific to shoot up Japanese cargo ships and ground targets.
B-25s were pressed into service as ASW patrollers off the U.S. east coast during Operation
Paukenschlag, but they were the older B-25B, -C,
etc., medium bombers with just a single 0.50-caliber machine gun in the nose.
We didn't put the B-25 in GWX this time since we thought rocket-armed B-24's would be enough; however, it seems we may have been mistaken about that...
Pablo
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