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In ca.general Ben Howard <?bhoward*hatescrapmail*at?bga!daht!cahm!> wrote:

: John Childress wrote in message <398FFE8E.1F3FC625@link.com>...
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:>Ben Howard wrote:
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:>>     Air supremacy is our specialty... I thought you'd been paying
: attention
:>> for the last 20 years.
:>> B-52s are slated to be in service until 2035, and were not designed with
:>> high-accuracy bombing in mind.  We have enough B-52s and munitions in
: Texas
:>> alone to carpet-bomb Iwo Jima into a bump that sticks out of the ocean.
:>
:>LOL!!!!!
:>    Look at your history.  The Navy spent days of bombardment both Naval
: Gun
:>and Aircraft prior to our landing on IWO.  There were still thousands of
: troops
:>waiting for our Marines.

:     Remember the context.  We're talking about a hypothetical invasion of
: Iwo Jima using modern tools and tactics.  The B-52 can carry 75,000 pounds
: of conventional bombs.  By comparison, the
: B-29 carried 5,000 pounds (long range mode), and the B-17 carried 2,000
: pounds.  The smaller attack aircraft (A-4, Helldiver, etc) used by the navy
: carried 1,000 pounds of bombs at most.

     But the point is that aircraft were only a small part of the
pre-invasion bombardment of Iwo.  Most of it was by naval guns.
A 16 inch HC shell weighs over a ton, and a full salvo is eight
or nine shells.  Salvos can be repeated every 30 seconds,
indefinitely.