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Originally Posted by mosquito617 Nice of them, i think. As i understand it the RAF crews always considered Italian targets to be Milk Runs. Was that the same for the USAAF? |
We had some of both. We had Wellingtons based at our field that flew at night, ask some of their crews. I met some of their people and was told that they had heavy losses,
My crew and 2 other crews were replacements for 3 out of 6 planes in my sqdn that were shot down. My group of 28 planes were bombing an airfield in Sicily. They destroyed 20 planes on the ground, in the area of the target they were attacked by over 100 190s and 109s, they got credit for shooting down 49 and damaged/some probables 22 more. This is from official records. I wouldn't call missions to Foggia , Naples, Mestre near Venice and Bolzano area plus others as milk runs.
Also, any target worth hitting was very well protected wuth flak batteries, my personal opinion is that flak was worse then fighters