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Offline lyric1

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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2010, 03:40:19 PM »
B-26s were only used twice on the same day (at Midway and the Aleutians) to drop torpedoes.  ack-ack
Not so. Your forgetting the RAF 14 Squadron again.

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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2010, 03:47:44 PM »
Don't believe the 25 ever used torps operationally. 
Yes & here they both are.


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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2010, 03:49:08 PM »
Not so. Your forgetting the RAF 14 Squadron again.

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You forgot to read the squadron's history.

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On 21st February 1943 nine Marauders led by Maj Eric Lewis SAAF attacked shipping in the harbour at Melos, but despite the success of this action, this operation was the last time that the Squadron used torpedoes

History of 14 Squadron

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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2010, 03:52:15 PM »
Yes & here they both are.

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Corky is correct, B-25s never used torpedoes operationally.  The only time B-25s dropped torpedoes was in 1945, literally the last two weeks of the war when a handful of B-25Js modified to carry the glide torpedo flew two missions to evaluate the glide torpedo in combat, which proved inconclusive. 

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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2010, 04:03:53 PM »
You forgot to read the squadron's history.

History of 14 Squadron

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Read it & the book of the squadron I corrected my original post. So you may want to ammend your post now.  :D

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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2010, 11:55:51 PM »
TORPEDOES!!

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I really want to fly into tank town and torpedo a hanger.
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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2010, 12:24:14 PM »
TORPEDOES!!

I really want to fly into tank town and torpedo a hanger.

S.A.P.P does that all the time using Mensa's technique he developed for dropping torpedoes on building and ground vehicles.  A well dropped torpedo on the old towns used to take out 5-6 buildings if you hit the angles just right on the drop.

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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2010, 03:45:25 PM »
I might not use the torps but I sure as heck would use the B-25J.   


Just throwing that out there...... :pray

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Re: I think it's time we add a new weapon to the B25.
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2010, 01:22:42 AM »
I might not use the torps but I sure as heck would use the B-25J.

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