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Offline Bino

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Seventy-one years ago today, on July 10, 1942...
« on: July 10, 2013, 10:22:54 AM »
...an American PBY Catalina piloted by Lieutenant William "Bill" Thies spotted the salvageable wreck of a Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" on Akutan Island.




More here:

http://www.amazon.com/Kogas-Zero-Fighter-Changed-Alaska/dp/0929521560/ref=pd_sim_b_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akutan_Zero
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Offline EskimoJoe

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Re: Seventy-one years ago today, on July 10, 1942...
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2013, 12:37:43 PM »
Many don't realize how close Japan actually is to Alaska.

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Re: Seventy-one years ago today, on July 10, 1942...
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2013, 02:24:55 PM »
Quote from: EskimoJoe on July 10, 2013, 12:37:43 PM
Many don't realize how close Japan actually is to Alaska.

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Close enough that we were sending PV-1s and PV-2s from the Aleutian Islands to bomb the Japanese islands of Paramushiro and Shimushu in the Kurile Island chain in 1943.

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