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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2010, 06:09:08 PM »
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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2010, 06:38:30 PM »
I have played that game before. That's awesome.
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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2010, 06:38:42 PM »
Wow that was really really good! How I miss BF1942.
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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2010, 11:32:27 PM »
While the clip itself was pretty cool, show me ANY record of pilots carrying bazookas instead of the usual sidearm.

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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2010, 01:05:02 AM »
THAT. WAS. IN. FFING. CREDIBLE!

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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2010, 01:23:33 AM »
While the clip itself was pretty cool, show me ANY record of pilots carrying bazookas instead of the usual sidearm.



FYI: iirc, there was an indecent where a US observation plane was flying over the front when it came upon a German observation plane.  The US pilot flew close enough to use his pistol and forced the German aircraft to land.  I'll have to dig to find the exact details.
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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2010, 02:12:00 AM »
FYI: iirc, there was an indecent where a US observation plane was flying over the front when it came upon a German observation plane.  The US pilot flew close enough to use his pistol and forced the German aircraft to land.  I'll have to dig to find the exact details.

http://uh.edu/engines/epi2431.htm
and http://www.warbirdalley.com/storch.htm

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The Fieseler Storch was the last dogfight victim of the western front. Pilot Duanes Francies and his observer, Lieutenant William Martin, of the 5th US Army Division, spotted a Storch circling below them while looking for ground targets in their Piper Cub. Diving on the Storch, the two men opened fire with their Colt .45s and the plane spiraled to the ground. After a short gun battle, Francies and his observer took the two Germans into custody. Lt. Martin was awarded the Air Medal for his part in the fight, but Francies would have to wait until the story was reported in Cornelius Ryan's book "The Last Battle," to finally be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The USAF was 22 years late. Apart from being the last Luftwaffe plane lost in the west, this Storch was also the only enemy plane downed by pistol fire during the war.





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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2010, 02:58:32 AM »
And how can they be sure that it was the only plane in the war that was incapacitated by pistol fire?
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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2010, 07:45:37 AM »
     Officially.  Of course if you have information that the LW did it all the time, I'm sure
that would be a fascinating read as well.
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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2010, 08:24:38 AM »
Awesome that he got back in the plane afterwards!     :rock  :banana:
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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2010, 11:43:41 AM »
that was so freakin sick.

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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2010, 02:26:30 PM »
This is what amazes me. This group will jump all over, verbally abuse, and otherwise chastise reasonable wishes, yet something like this comes along and its 'cool.'

And the Cub/Storch battle, well documented. But - they weren't using bazookas.

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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2010, 02:45:02 PM »
This is what amazes me. This group will jump all over, verbally abuse, and otherwise chastise reasonable wishes, yet something like this comes along and its 'cool.'

And the Cub/Storch battle, well documented. But - they weren't using bazookas.



Wishes such as these are seen by many as tongue-in-cheek.  Not worth the effort to chastise as they are not meant to be taken seriously, I hope....

Any opportunity to spread what is apparently a true and documented occurrence however....



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Re: Please give Pilots bazookas so that we can do this
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2010, 02:50:57 PM »
No argument there...

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