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Originally posted by K_Freddie:
Hence the Kamikaze's in the pacific.
These people were 'indoctrinated' with fear of the enemy and the horrors they were to perform.

Anything is possible in wartime

The problem was that when The USA started bombing civilian targets (in Japan) it seemed to substantiate peoples worst fears.

Several comments based on the original question in this thread.

(The thread seems to have got off topic so I have not read all of it. Apologies if I am repeating points already made)

1. Rifle calibre guns did require accurate shooting to bring down a bomber. I have a BOB period photo of a Dornier that crash landed in France, running out of fuel before it reached its airfield. The caption states the crew counted over 200 bullet holes in the aircraft. this was apparently not unusual.

2. In terms of the he-111 its most vulnerable point in real life was lateral attacks as there was only the one waist gunner for left and right guns and he had to swap sides. The RAF developed a technique of making a faint attack from one side and then once they drew fire a real attack was made from the unprotected side. I do not believe this vulnerability is modeled in game, nor are most online players capable of that degree of teamwork.

3. In game it is possible to take out several bombers with the 38 hurri before running out of ammo. A typical attack might involve getting ahead of the bomber stream and hitting your first target headon (or laterally if you cannot get far enough ahead) at the same level as the stream (aim for pilot in ju88 or engine in he111). hopefully you can at least slow this plane down and reduce the number of defensive guns against you. ignore this plane once it drops out of the stream. Dive under the first target and staying low build up speed come back underneath and then pull up and fire directly into the belly/engines of a second target overshoot and go high, immelman back down and shoot again from above (aim for pilot in ju88 or engine in he111). Never sit on the 6 of the bombers.

4. If you manage to get a fuel leak happening you have two options ... let it go and hope the leak is severe enough for the plane to run out of fuel or (more dangerous but more fun) aim for the fuel leak on the next pass and try to set the wing on fire.

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