Originally posted by WPmega
reading yalls post again i have seen yall are like missing the key points i put in the CV's had a lauch system and the P47's had no tail hook. now that it has been put in a way were its not so big can u read?
srry to be rude about this but when a post is long no one reads it like the person wanted it to be read.
The Jugs shown had drop tank only. No bombs. No rockets. Did not see anything on the first link of note. What the film does show looks like the typical delivery of P-47's to an island airfield being operated by the United States Army Air Force. Not an attack. Just a ferry mission.
And you see to have missed the part where the P-47's could not
land on a carrier. Their landing gear and frame were not reinforced to sustain a carrier deck landing..... they would have folded up on the deck. Those Jugs, which had standard gear, were put onto that carrier by a heavy overhead crane. Jugs did not operate from carriers for combat operations.
We can get away with carrier landings in the game.....but IRL, the gear would collapse more often than not, even if they did add a tail hook.
The
Manila Bay was a
CASABLANCA class escort carrier - CVE-61. Which explains the catapults (short deck) and further points to this being a ferry or shuttle mission of USAAF planes to an island base in the Pacific.
And, actually, it was all kind of hard to read in the first place.
