Top 10 Bombers of WWII

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Video description: World War II saw the beginning of the widespread use of advanced bombers which dispensed with defensive weapons to be able to attain higher speed, range and having good performance. These aircraft have proved to be very successfully and have played a major role during that time. In this video we present the List of the 10 Greatest Bombers of world war 2 and this list we will also include medium bombers, light bombers or even torpedo or dive bombers.
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[thebuzz]

The Mosquito is powered with 2 engines (not a single engine). Sorry for this mistake.

[cassandrafoxx]

That isn't a Liberator you have pictured at No.6, but the naval variant, the Privateer. The Liberator had twin vertical end-tails (save for the B-24N variant), the Privateer had a single vertical tail.

[brentparks]

I guess we’re just not going to mention the B-25 Mitchell and the fact it’s better than most bombers on this list. Maritime, ground support, plane flew darn near any mission you can think of and was a moral counter strike to pearl when we flew them off the deck of a carrier to strike mainland Japan.

[stevenbreach]

Stuka, above the Lanc? sacrilege.Obsolete fighter fodder.And the Mozzy had 2 Merlin's last time I looked

[btall]

The B-29 was in a class by itself. I would have left off some of the single-engine planes on this list and instead added the B-25, HE-111, and the Japanese "Betty".

[jimdoyle]

Stuka above a lancanster and a Mossie wow your tripping, the lancaster was probably the most effective bomber in the whole of ww2 and was even the replacement for the enola gay if they couldn't get it to carry the bomb they dropped on Hiroshima

[barryjobe]

Where the hell is the Sturmovic? Most produced bomber in history, hugely successful in combat.

[ModanoTheBest]

The B-17 has to be one of the sexiest aircraft ever designed. Absolutely gorgeous.

[ronnelson]

The A-26 played almost no role during WW2. Why is it on this list?

[kooqprj]

Stuka higher than the Lancaster? What you smokin? And as usual with these top tens US bias plays it’s part

[FallGuyManiac]

My grandmothers cousin Ted S Faulkner flew B24’s, B17’s and B29’s. The B24 he flew before the war with Ferry Command. He was the pilot of a B24 (40-2371) on a secret spy mission…but it was destroyed on the ground at Hickam Field Dec 7th. His navigator was instantly killed and is the first US airman to die in WWII. he flew B17’s with the 88th recon squadron pre-war (those were his squadron mates flying B17’s into Hawaii during the attack) and with the 435th Kangaroo Squadron, during which he flew the president of the Philippines to Australia in 1942 on board a B17. He later became the 468th bomb group commander (B29’s) in India in 1944. He was piloting a B29 (42-6370) on a night bombing mission to Singapore when the engine caught fire and the plane went down.

[vimalkumar]

My father was in squadran of B 24 liberator of indian air force in 1960. These aircraft were recovered from scrap by HAL india. These aircraft were dumped by USAF and RAF in chakeri kanpur up india in 1945. Total 48 aircraft were recovered and 2 bomber squadron formed by IAF. After retirement 5 aircraft were given to USA Canada and Uk for air museum. You can google it.

[henrykrieger]

The German JU 88 should score way higher than the Stuka!!

[SilverFox-qrci]

Where is the B-25? Should be mentioned for the Dolittle raid alone!

[raymondvia]

My late uncle flew B-17 -G's from Kimbolton Huntshire England with the 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron, Elsie Mae was the name of the airplane.

[peterstewart]

How can the B17 be better than the Lancaster, with a smaller bomb load and shorter range?

[iancarr]

Wot - No Fairey Swordfish. Sank more shipping than any other WW2 aircraft

[akedahlback]

Nah! #6 It's not a B24 Liberator. It's a Privateer.

[saren]

I read a few comments now and i see a lot of them hate the ju 87 for being trash in the late war but forget that in most time there where very effective and in the end when german air superiority was completly gone they served as tankkillers and there were effective too.

It was a good aircraft at every stage in the war but no bomber can shine without help from fighters and germany learned that the hard way in the battle of britan none of these bombers could be effective on its own.

At the end this plane is one of the best ww2 planes overall not just in case of a bomber its one of the most effective planes in the entire war

[cdjhyoung]

So, what is the grading scale used to define the top ten bombers of WW II? I see no hint that this is a subjective list: the B29 is a great airplane, but saw the least amount of combat time of any airplane on this list. Define how you are using the term "range"? In most applications that would mean the distance from take off to target. In this list, its use is all over the place. The top speeds for the Lancaster, B24, B17 and the Halifax are all extremely over stated. Some guy at a drawing board may have thought these could fly that fast, but the reality is, speeds in excess of 200 mph for all of them were either unobtainable with a full load, or made the air frame so unstable that the plane would fly apart. The graphics for the B24 are a mess. The illustrated model shown with the statistics isn't even a B24 model, it is a YB24 built in minimal numbers and used only by the Navy for shore patrol> It in fact was a second class bomber, intended instead as a spotter plane and to do machine gun based air to surface attacks, Even the model shown flying is a D model that saw European combat in limited numbers, The true B24 model that should be shown would b the J model that had the most units in operation, superior defensive fire power, a longer range and heavier bomb load. The B26 was an inferior airplane to the B25, but not by much. But to infer that it an anyway was the equivalent of a Mosquito bomber is ludicrous. The B26 bomb load, air speed, range and maneuverability are all significantly inferior to the Mosquito. The B26 may have been pressed into some bombing missions similar to the Mosquito, but it was hardly the equal.

Basically, this video is a poorly researched mess.