It was also used extensively to transport Marine Raiders in the Battle of Ima-Idjeeit Atolls (Island chain next to Ima-Maroon in the Formasa Straights) and then the P-38s would take off to attack and surpress Japanese positions.
Just do a Google search for Formasa Straights - Battle of Ima-Maroon and Ima-Idjeeit and read for yourself. You can also search YouTube (I would but access to YouTube is blocked at work) for Battle of Ima-Idjeeit and you'll see a 3 minute video of Marine Raiders and ParaRaiders being loaded into these pods before the battle's start.
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I did, read lots of pretty cool info, but come on, my idea for the pod is better than yours to bring troops to town. btw thanks for letting us know about this, really had no idea how widely it was used, and if i had been one of the troops, it would have been my life long mission to find the engineers that designed it, stuck them in a barrel and throw them over the Niagara falls.
You know why? I work in a steel mill and the engineering department did some modificationtions to two pillars that support our overhead cranes to allow additional space for a new furnace. All crane operators refused to go even close to the two pillars, until the engineer who designed the modification would go up in the crane to prove that it was safe, he refused till additional work he had requested but had been denied was done. keep in mind our cranes can lift 50 tons.
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