What is your favorite WWII medium bomber?

HE-111 is the best looking bomber hands down. Obviously the American B-17 or  B-26 whatnot would be the best as far as stats.

Also, if we were to include some of Germany’s designs for strategic bombers and include them, they were even greater than a B-17 in most respects.

My god I agree with Imperious SO much. That bomber is beautiful. But my favorite is the B-17f. The boys of the 8th and 9th that flew those planes into europe under no fighter escort were brave men and suffered tremendously to prove daylight strategic bombing was key to Allied Victory.

I’m so suprised the Ju-88 and Mitchell are tied. We clearly have voters here that appreciate not only an effective bomber, but a beautiful one at that. The Mitchell was so far ahead in terms of firepower and could kick way more ass in my opinion while the Ju 88 was so manueverable, it served as a fighter on many occasions. Not the greatest fighter, that’s just an example of how manuverable that thing was. In fact I believe this got started by the RAF in the Battle of Britain and carried over to our pilots. Thunderbolt, spitfire and hurricane pilots, probably all of them stationed in England that served as bombing escorts, reffered to any twin engine plane in the air as “Meat on the table.”

Source of refferance for that one was

“Spitfires, thunderbolts and warm beer”
The story of Lee Gover.

Very good book. Lee flew spitfires for the RAF as a volunteer before the US got involved. The English were so wonderful to the VERY few American and Canadian pilots who came over to risk their life when they didn’t have to. I believe one of the transports in Lee’s convoy on his way over was torpedoed and there was no survivors. And they had destroyer escort!! The cool thing about this book is what an amazing first person portrait of the times it is and what it was to be a pilot and see all the aircraft we’ve talked about, in action.

Lee was the only pilot in his squadron to return from Dieppe. He transfered to the Thunderbolt when the US came over and made him switch squadrons. He was not an ace, but that’s what gives the book part of its candor. Lee was an amazing pilot landing damaged aircraft all the time and was a brilliant trouble shooter mechanically speaking when something went wrong in the air. You get a look at how many pilots were actually killed in accidents.

God bless all those men.