That's true, but is also true that in actual combat missions, the B-29s were not exactly swept from the skies over Korea. It wasn't B-29 losses alone that moved attacks to Radar bombing at Night.
Look at B-24s in the ETO, 226,775 sorties with 3,626 losses, that was 1 loss in 62.54 sorties. North Korea was far safer for bomber crewmen. This was the point I was making, and it does not invalidate that SAC Brass felt they didn't have the force they wanted.
Agreed in general but my point and more to the point was that SAC was aware they likely could neither HIT nor possibly REACH their target. And in this case it wasn't what the SAC brass so much 'wanted' (they wanted to be the ONLY service and made no bones about it
Randy