Letter: Hugo Barnacle on why removing gun turrets would have led to greater losses of Lancaster bombers
In your obituary of Freeman Dyson , you note correctly that Bomber Command “ignored” the 19-year-old Dyson’s proposal, in 1943, to remove the gun turrets from Lancaster bombers. But it was – like some of Dyson’s later wheezes, such as powering a spaceship with nuclear bombs, or planting trees on comets – an unsound notion.
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