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In article <MTANNER.93Jan5125110@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> mtanner@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Michael C. Tanner) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.120010.5708@mr.med.ge.com> szopinsk@picard.med.ge.com (Jerry Szopinski Mfg 4-6983) writes:
>
>   B-26 Marauder - Widow Maker.
>
>AKA "The Baltimore Whore" (because it had "no visible means of support", an
>                          old legalism for proving prostitution -- pilots were
>                          leary of the short narrow chord wing, and Martin was 
>                          in Baltimore)
>
>I've also heard "One a Day in Tampa Bay".  Transition training was in Florida
>and they had a lot of accidents.

Once they got into combat, though, the B-26 had one of, if not *the*, lowest
combat loss rate for bombers during the war.











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