[wimsma]

I want to tell you about the actual bombing of the railroadbridge in my hometown. This bridge was of low strategic importance, but still it was bombed by the RAF. Now..many years later it is debated if the prize the people in the city had to pay was not far th high.



The bridge was bombed by B-25 planes. hey dropped about 250 1000 pund bombs at each run. There were bombings on 13, 18, 28, 29, oktober and on 2,3,4,5, 18, 19 november 1944. Some days there were two runs. A total of 13 bombings. Bombs were dropped at about 10000 to 12000 feet because of the heavy flak. The weather was very bad, many bombings used only radar for guidence. Bombing was very inaccurate...the complete inner-city was destroyed. More then 300 people were killed.



Still the bridge was NOT DESTROYED!! The Germans themselves blew it up when they retreated to the eastside of the Maas river.



You see only the craters in the open field. There are many more across the city.
Siting in a cellar while you are being bombed is very traumatic. Stories about these events were told in my family for many years.

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Ok..it's history now and I play games with this stuff. I just wanted to make clear how extreme difficult bombing a bridge is...

I think bombing a bridge in il-2 is far too easy. When a bridge is defended it is suicidal to go below 10000 feet. The problem about bombing is the extreme acuraty you need. When a bomb hits the bridge it just makes a small hole in it and expledes in the water. When you look at the pictures you see the bridge was actually hit several times. You have to hit the pilars. Maybe this is some inspiration for some modder to build a more realistic damegemodel for bridges.