Funny, considering the several thousand rounds spent, I would say a hit once in a while is statistically prone to happen. After all, firing solutions don't get a lot easier than with a dead 6 approach.
Can you prove it is theoretically impossible to hit an aircraft from 500-700 m away? Otherwise, the chance for a hit is always there. That's just life.
Anyway, if I had killed twenty Betties within just 10 missions in 1 vs. 8 situations, for 8 hits into my aircraft in return, folks would probably want to know my secret, not the secret of some loser gunners. I'd certainly not run to my superiors and whine, after all, I'd be the highest ranking US bomber destroyer ace.
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