<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.historylink.org&#x2F;index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&amp;File_Id=3828" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.historylink.org&#x2F;index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&amp;...</a><p>There&#x27;s a recorded instance of a B29 shooting down 14 fighters over Tokyo (it was also rammed by two fighters and still made it home). There are also instances of B29s downing MiGs over Korea.<p>The late model B17s were pretty effective too. An old Strategy &amp; Tactics magazine quoted stats for two different air forces (recall it was the &quot;US Army Air Corps&quot; and &quot;Air Forces&quot; were simply an organizational unit) operating out of Britain over a two year period in WWII, one was bombers and the other fighters. Both shot down roughtly the same number of planes -- but the bombers used 100x as much ammunition. (Sorry, this is a 1970s print publication, no link, just my memory.)<p>Also recall that the Japanese lost almost all their trained pilots early in the war, so the B29 was using a far superior weapon system against very inexperienced pilots.