Over 3,000 were built until the end of WW2, over 1,000 flew above the Japanese and 147 were lost to enemy fire (267 due to accidents).One master race saw this high up in the heavens above and quaked with fear. They even got to disintegrate into elementary particles in a certain two places.The other master race had to make do with the B-17 Flying Fortress (second pic - over 12,000 built) and B-24 Liberator (third pic - over 18,000 built). The losses for these represented one third. The B-17, B-24 and B-29 carried payloads of 2, 4 and 10 metric tons of ordnance respectively.I do not envy the fate of either of these two master races.
we had an assembly line thread on /k/ recently but it didn't last long on the Catalog
>>65329625WW2 assembly lines are of particular interest to me because of just how much one side mogged the other. The war was plain stupid on the Axis sideI made a mistake. The B-29 had a load of 9 metric tons, it was the Avro Lancaster that carried 10 tons in the form of the Grand Slam bomb.The Brits made over 7,000 of them during the war but they had a higher rate of attrition than the American bombers, about half.
Once the United States entered the war with both feet it was all over. World War II was a question of manufacturing capacity and logistics, entirely.
>>65329609Russia won both germany and japan in ww2 they got to berlin first and japan surrendered only after Russia declared war on them. These planes didn't do any anything since airpower can't win wars like we see in Iran now.
>>65329663Wrong.No post-1945 "war" is comparable in even the remotest respect to World War II.Total War ended in September 1945.
>>65329663Russia was never a threat to the Japanese mainland. They had no meaningful naval power in the Pacific and absolutely no amphibious invasion capability. Their own strategic bombing capability was also quite lacking.
>>65329663HAHAHAHAHA
>>65329663low quality bait, but you did get some fish so what do I know.
>>65329635My Grandad was a Flight Engineer on a Lanc. He did 44 missions and got shot down 3 times. 1st time he got bounced over Belgian by a German night fighter and got shot to shit. The kite made it do the English coast but he had to bail out. He landed about 50 m away from the shore so he swam to the beach and went to local police station to get transport back to his squadron. 2nd time a heavy fighter(something with a 30mm cannon) strafed his aircraft killing the mid gunner and damaging the aircraft. They dropped the load early and made it back to the airfield but could not get one of the wheels down so he had to bail out. The Mid gunner who was killed was shredded by the 30mm to such an extent he literally exploded and my grandad got the poor buggers blood in his eyes and almost went blind. They had to remove fragments of of the poor fuckers bone out of his eyes. 3rd time he was dropping navel mines off the coast of Denmark ang he got hit by shore gunfire. The aircraft burst into flames because they were dropping mines they were very low so they had to ditch. He jumped out the the burning aircraft into pool of oil form the engines. That got into his eyes and he couldn't see and spent the next 3 days floating in Doggerland blind until an RAF fast boat picked him up. Only him and the navigator survived. Aint war hell.
>>65330083>got shot down 3 times.i keep hearing/reading stories like this. how did they survive getting shot down? was there an easy escape route and they had parachutes?
>>65330172Very few people who bailed out got shot out of the sky and had to jump out of an aircraft while it was hurling to the ground. Most times that that happened everyone usually died or was already dead.Most crew who did bail out (about 27,000 RAF personnel were repatriated) jumped out of aircraft that could not land or were to damaged to make it home so they had some time to prepare for the jump and do so under optimal conditions. By 43 most RAF Bomber crews had done 2 basic jumps in training which drastically improved survivability. Also after 42 the Turner Nylon Parachute was widespread which was a vast improvement over the old Silk 1933 pattern.
>>65329609Archive thread with info about the vast B-29 manufacturing program 1942—1945, biggest single project of entire war:https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/65089718>>65329625>assembly line thread on /k/https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/65198306
>>65329997what are クリル列島 for 1945, Stalin-sama
>>65330343>Joseph Stalin said that the Soviet entry into the war against Japan would not be possible until after a three-month period following Germany's defeat,[9] per an assurance he offered to the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, W. Averell Harriman, at an October 1944 meeting. Stalin further stipulated as part of the agreement that it would include the Allies providing substantial assistance to the Soviet Union in building up its armed forces and military supplies in East Asia and the Pacific in advance of any Soviet operations against Japan. The United States soon began the work of meeting the Soviet requirements outside of and in addition to annual Lend-Lease allotments of aid to the Soviets,[10] including the transfer of a dozen types of ships and aircraft from the United States to the Soviet armed forces. In the spring and summer of 1945, the United States secretly transferred 149 ships and craft – mostly escort vessels, landing craft, and minesweepers – to the Red Fleet at Cold Bay in the Territory of Alaska in Project Hula.[10] Even so, cooperation between the Soviets and Americans was minimal and in August 1945 the Soviets did not have the capability to mount a major sea-borne invasion of Japanese-held territory.[11]Wow, sounds like the Soviets 'won' the Pacific Theater alright.
>>65329656I like that you can see multiple bicycles for getting around the factory
>>65330582>it would include the Allies providing substantial assistance to the Soviet Union>in addition to annual Lend-Lease allotments of aid to the Soviets>In the spring and summer of 1945, the United States secretly transferred 149 ships>Even so, cooperation between the Soviets and Americans was minimal and in August 1945 the Soviets did not have the capability to mount a major sea-borne invasion
>>65329656Japanese were bogged down in China for years. IIRC Britain and France had greater production capabilities than Germany.
The extensive use of fluorescent lighting gives a place a modern look.In Japan, it was still largely limited to shipboard lighting for the Navy.
>>65329625I sadly missed it. I have nothing to contribute but boy do such threads make me horny.
>>65333120May have been part of the reason they ran anemic night shifts at some plants if any.
>>65329609>Doc is in town for an airshow>work near airport>watch B-29 all day long
>>65333359Woops, enjoy a shitt pic
>>65329609>>65329612>>65329616The fact there's no time lapse video of WW2 airplane assembly line is a real crime against humanity.
>>65333729Have you tried pornhub for it?
>>65330288wow, so they jumped out of the burning plane and parachuted to the ground? that's badass. i guess they tried to fly as far toward Allied territory as possible before jumping didnt they? a PoW can't fly another bomber mission
>>65333806They actually expected some of them in the wreckage
>>65333729>timelapsebut then you would miss out on the details like this gemhttps://youtu.be/p2zukteYbGQ?si=Gy3TwFEjR5XY9Lsp&t=1610
And then for no reason at all the US decided to dismantle all manufacturing. Oh no, there was a reason actually, it was too expensive. And then everything afterwards became exorbitantly expensive anyway
>>65333073>production capabilitieshas to do with more than solely just manufacturing facilities/tooling and technology, it also has to do with access to natural and mineral resources. That both Germany and Imperial Japan lacked in proportion to their empire goals and particularly in comparison to the magnitude of what the U.S. provided to the entire allied coalition.>>65334576https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zukteYbGQ
>>65334533kek>>65334662ackchyually the Boeing Wichita plant was restarted half a year ago. it makes commercial planes only tho
>>65329609>Over 3,000 were built until the end of WW2, over 1,000 flew above the JapaneseWTF were the other 2/3s of production doing?
>>65334733>has to do with more than solely just manufacturing facilities/tooling and technology, it also has to do with access to natural and mineral resources.Mentioned British and French meaning around 1939 when they were both fighting and both had extensive empires. Not sure about the extent of the capacity of the Chinese to extract natural and mineral resources during the first half of the war, but they lacked the capability to make use of them at the time. If you look solely at relative manufacturing capacity and logistics the Fall of France never should have happened and China should have fallen.
>>65335113Those 2/3 were made in the last 6 months of the war, ignoring other constraints there wasn't a lot of time to get the crew ready and bomb an Island on the other side of the pacific.
>>65335113probably one-third of the total B-29 production was delivered to USAAF August 1945 or afterward meaning they didn't see World War II service.A significant number of World War II-served B-29s—particularly during 1944 when operations were being conducted from China and India—were used for *fuel transport* over 'The Hump' and other liaison, flight testing (for engines, armament and various experiments) and combat training, along with the hundreds used for stateside crew training. It was brand new and the most complex aircraft ever mass-produced and the entire program required a lot of logistical sacrifice and distribution.Total B-29 production was just under 4,000 aircraft and the last ones delivered in early 1946.
>>65334662my brother in Christ, b-29 were pure garbage compared to the next generation of bombers (like the b-52).one b-52 is easily worth 100 b-29
>>65329656>>65329635>>65329616>>65329612Imagine being a middle manager back then and getting to plow prime 18 yo 40's dames in the half-finished cockpit of one of those bombers while their sweethearts are stuck sleeping in a tent in europe
>>65335347Wrong board. Most of us prefer to imagine doing cool stuff like jumping out of aeroplanes in Europe and shooting Germans. Bros before hoes, bitches are temporary but glory in battle is forever etc, etc - your post demonstrates why.
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>>65335376This. Why would any prime meat lady shack up with an actual invalid?
>>65335537rape chink melty
>>65335306I'm not talking about B29s, I'm talking in general
>>65335306>Retard not understanding what attrition is.
>>65335306>B36 is forgotten
>>65335347It's always some weirdo from /pol/ inflicting his cuck fantasies on us.
