Talk:Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress

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I just removed a couple of comments. In answer to the question they posed - the reason they didn't put more ammo in the ball turret is that it wouldn't fit more than 300 rounds + 2 .50 guns + a person. Additional ammo would have been passed in from the other positions as needed.

Megapixie 01:18, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If the references were converted to inline citations this could be a B-class. --Colputt 18:15, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't that pretty much complete fabrication? I understand that whilst Italians did briefly fly one P-38, entire YB-40 story is made up. Martin Caidin is hardly a trustworthy source. --82.128.184.86 16:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can you read Italian? look at http://www.bancaero.it/shop/product_info.php?cPath=1129_241&products_id=5110 Dirk P Broer 15:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I, too, am leery as hell about the Italian P-38 story. I have read a boatload of WW II history over the last 40 years, and the ONLY place I have seen that account was from Martin Caiden, whom I learned a long time ago not to accept at face value. He was a yarnspinner who got facts wrong. The above reference to the Italian book is only an advert with no detail of the account. Mark Sublette (talk) 16:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette (talk) 16:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The web page at http://everything.explained.at/YB-40_Flying_Fortress/ claims that "This event was documented in the pages of aviation author Martin Caidin's book "Flying Forts", about B-17 action in WW II Europe." The book is available at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/FLYING-FORTS-B-17-WORLD-WAR/dp/055328780X/ (Note that I am not arguing that Martin Caiden is a reliable source - I am just reporting which book allegedly contains the story. --Guy Macon (talk) 09:51, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is also described at length in his book "Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38". 83.241.192.2 (talk) 13:39, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The village Pont is now a part of Geldern. Could someone add the link?--79.211.212.150 (talk) 00:10, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done - ZLEA _T\^C 00:29, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]