Word: fw
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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When Luftwaffe pilots first met the Fortresses, they had a brutal shock. Used to sitting beyond the short range of .30-caliber guns and potting British bombers with their light aircraft cannon, Messerschmitt and Fw-190 pilots found themselves in heavy fire as they approached the U.S. bombers. For a while U.S. commanders had trouble persuading their gunners to fire when the Germans were many hundreds of yards away: the gunners, unused to their high-velocity, long-range weapons, had been trained to wait too long. But they soon learned better, and Fortresses knocked down at least 48 German fighters...