Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "The most produced Bomber in history had a bad reputation | B-24 Liberator" video.

  1.  @Triple_J.1  ”Damage control over the abysmal failure of the air force brass in sending hundreds of bombers unescorted and losing over a hundred planes and thousands of crew members on totally failed raids in 1943.” Your maths aren’t up to much. ‘Over a hundred planes’ doesn’t equal ‘thousands of crew members’. Over a thousand maybe but many survived. And realistically, what choice did they have? Please give an example of ‘totally failed raids in 1943’.
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  2. ⁠​⁠​⁠ @Thenogomogo-zo3un  ”It was the top brass who didn’t like the idea of their Air Force using foreign planes. They didn’t even like the addition of the Merlin engine in the P 51 even.” Source? This is BS. As much as it was preferable to have an independent industrial base, as far as possible, when the crunch came, Hap Arnold told his deputy, Lt Gen. Barney Giles, to fix the escort problem by whatever means within six months. What they did or didn’t like wasn’t even a factor. The attempts by content producers to create a ‘bomber mafia’ bogeyman in recent years and build up half-arsed conspiracy theories for likes and hits, has been done at the expense of truth. The willingness of those incapable of critical thought or independent research to believe in the old trope of ‘lions led by donkeys’ has rarely been paralleled in my memory. Anyone who goes to war expecting to inflict casualties without receiving any in return is an idiot. The post-Desert Storm generation seems to believe that war only kills your enemies and that everyone can just go home and live happily ever after. There is no such thing as a casualty-free war. No military planner ever pretends otherwise. So if you can’t accept that people will be killed as a result then what are you doing here? In short, do some research before you post.
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  3. Yeah, that was a bit of a goof.
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  4. Yeah, the Liberator was actually reasonably popular here. There’s a complete airframe on static display in a hangar down at Werribee, in Victoria. I’ve never seen it but always wanted to. It’s about an hour from my place.
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