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Offline Widewing

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« on: December 18, 2005, 07:05:05 PM »
This TBM eventually made a successful water landing alongside a Destroyer.

Amazing that it flew back at all.



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Offline ShortyDoowap

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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2005, 08:29:56 PM »
No doubt you've seen this one


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« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2005, 08:38:39 PM »
And this one


Offline Saxman

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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2005, 12:43:33 AM »
Widewing: Don't see the pic.
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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2005, 03:53:36 AM »
I am a spy!

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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2005, 06:28:35 AM »
grumman new how to make rugged planes.

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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2005, 07:05:54 AM »
Very impressive pictures indeed. Out of curiosity, what's the case with that all-holed fighter ? What hit it ?
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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2005, 08:52:47 AM »
Kurfurst...it took everything a Japanese fighter could dish out...and survived.

That plane was patched up and sent back to Grumman to show the workers who constructed it just how well their product was holding up in combat.

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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2005, 09:39:21 AM »
403 Forbidden when I use the link, in Widewing's post I just get a big blank space, absolutely nothing at all to click on. Same with his "Wrong with this pic" one.
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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2005, 06:23:16 PM »
Have you seen this one?

 

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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2005, 07:00:36 PM »
Hmm...Some people see the photo, others do not.

I uploaded it to the AT&T server, it should appear below.



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« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2005, 07:08:48 PM »
Widewing,

I could see them on my work connection, but not last night on my home connection.
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« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2005, 07:14:47 PM »
Quote
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Very impressive pictures indeed. Out of curiosity, what's the case with that all-holed fighter ? What hit it ?


The book it came from, F6F Hellcat - In Detail and Scale, simply says the photo had "O'Hare's Favorite" written on the back.  It was shot up by another fighter, but its unknown if it was another US or a Japanese plane.

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« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2005, 07:19:47 PM »
Apparently, the Avenger with 1/2 a wing flew quite a distance from Chichi Jima back to its carrier before the tail broke off the the plane crashed into the water.  All on board were apparently rescued.

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« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2005, 07:28:41 PM »
Very possible.  The FW-190 with 1/2 a wing flew over 100 miles over water back to base.

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