"Survivor Bias" Topic

Just got back in the saddle and started 2021 with a small topic that was always on my mind:

Survivor Bias

Why would it always be on your mind?

Because i had saved bookmarks of it since i saw it, around august last year. :) I am a bookmark fanatic, i save everything and i read or re-read multiple times.

I remember reading the original article via a Link here at TMP sometime back, and it's well worth noting and remembering.

This represents the "other side of the coin" that we never see directly.

TVAG

I remember my father telling me about what a beating a B-24 could take and still come home. He was a belly gunner. His plane was shot down over Regensberg and he spent the rest of the war in a Luft Stalag.

Incidentally that's a picture of B-24's over Ploesti, on Operation Tidal Wave. Been reading a lot on it also as i live 30 miles from the place. :)

The bit about the Brodie helmet reminds me of the chestnut about bayonet wounds in the ACW. Because army surgeons treated (and thus recorded) so few bayonet wounds, historians extrapolated that CQB almost never happened in the ACW. By that logic, one might also argue that men were almost never shot through the head, or cut in half by artillery shot.

Thanks Baycee. I thought it was Ploesti, but I wasn't sure. It was the picture of the bomber that brought back the memory of my Dad. His bomber was green. TIG