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by mulmen 647 days ago
How long did those regular services take? 20 hour missions means they’re going in for service every mission. The 50 hour is every other mission.

Between the B-17 and B-24 we built about 30,000 strategic bombers in WWII. They don’t all have to be in the air regularly to maintain constant 1000+ bomber formations.

If you can find any account of how crews sharing aircraft regularly I’d love to see it because I have never heard anything like that.