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Eagle Day to Bombing of the Reich is a improved and enhanced edition of Talonsoft's older Battle of Britain and Bombing the Reich. This updated version represents the best simulation of the air war over Britain and the strategic bombing campaign over Europe that has ever been made.

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Lanconic
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drop tanks

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For the BoB game....

The Germans did have drop tanks for both the Me-109 and Me-110

Are they included in this game?
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RE: drop tanks

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Depends on the campaign.  In the 1940 campaign the 109E-7 can carry a drop tank.  All the Luftwaffe fighters can carry drop tanks in the 1941 campaign.
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RE: drop tanks

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for the fighters, they needed the carrier

which basicly became standard with the E-7, and then back graded to earlier models

(sort of like the Allies, you will hear/read about wet and dry points, a dry point will carry a bomb, as it does not have the plumbing for fuel, a wet point, could be used for either a bomb or a drop tank)

one of the 110s in the 40 campaign carries a drop tank, that it can not drop
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RE: drop tanks

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The BF 109E-7 did have the wet point to carry a drop tank.

It was not used operationally, because the plywood contruction leaked and the pilots beleived it to be a hazard.
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