Author Topic: Lancs, Ponies, Jugoons in Colour  (Read 163 times)

Offline Scherf

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Lancs, Ponies, Jugoons in Colour
« on: May 17, 2013, 10:07:58 PM »
On YouTube, 156 Squadron film with various air-to-airs of USAAF fighters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc36gKPcDF4

Who's the ace at 18:16?
... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB

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Re: Lancs, Ponies, Jugoons in Colour
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2013, 11:40:46 PM »
Col. Gordon Graham, 355th Fighter group.  The Mustang bits are fairly well known.  Liked the other bits.

Thanks for the heads up :aok
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Re: Lancs, Ponies, Jugoons in Colour
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2013, 12:35:35 AM »
Cheers Guppy.
... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB