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Offline SmokinLoon

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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #15 on: August 14, 2013, 07:30:34 PM »
Quote from: Zoney on August 14, 2013, 06:06:05 PM
Setting aside your revisionist history, I was reacting to a word he used today, not back in the day, but today that is unacceptable.  I see he didn't actually use the word but used another that phonetically is the same.  I have no intention of arguing about the politics "back in the day" that allowed racism as that would also be breaking the rules.

You're insinuating that I've twisted history from what it was and that simply isn't the case.  Far from it. 
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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #16 on: August 14, 2013, 10:09:52 PM »
Quote from: Scherf on August 14, 2013, 06:31:15 AM
Um, or perhaps it's the anniversary of VJ Day.

That would be 68 years ago. 2013 - 1945 = 68

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Yet, the first claim of a Me262 (Ofw H Lauer) shot down was by Maj J Myers and Lt M Croy Jr in P47s of the 78th FG on Aug 28 1944.

MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS

(Fifteenth Air Force):In the Fifteenth AF's first mass night raid, 252 B-17s and B-24s after a predawn takeoff pound beaches in the Cannes-Toulon, France area in immediate advance of Operation DRAGOON; 28 other fighter-escorted B-17s bomb highway bridges over the Rhone River; B-17s sent against coastal gun positions abort the mission owing to poor visibility; and 166 P-51s escort Mediterranean Tactical Air Force (MATAF) C-47s carrying airborne invasion troops.

http://www.usaaf.net/chron/44/aug44.htm
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Offline Scherf

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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #17 on: August 14, 2013, 10:38:36 PM »
And the Tuskegee's 3-Jet day was, IIRC, sometime the following March. Sure as heck wasn't August 15.
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... 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

Offline Kenne

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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #18 on: August 14, 2013, 10:52:18 PM »
wasnt VJ day Aug 14?
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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #19 on: August 14, 2013, 10:56:32 PM »
Quote from: Kenne on August 14, 2013, 10:52:18 PM
wasnt VJ day Aug 14?

Failed math, did you?
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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2013, 01:51:40 PM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on August 14, 2013, 10:56:32 PM
Failed math, did you?

Failed personality?
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Offline Kenne

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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2013, 05:00:53 PM »
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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #22 on: August 15, 2013, 06:32:35 PM »
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... 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: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2013, 06:45:10 PM »
Quote from: No9Squadron on August 14, 2013, 03:30:16 AM
On this day 69 years ago, the Tuskagee 332nd "Redtails" shot down 3 x 262, 3 probables and 2 damaged and a further 6 piston engined aircraft. It was a raid on Berlin.

The 51st fighter group was assigned to the bombers, who instead requested the 332nd.

69 years ago which would be 1944, not 1945.
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Re: Tomorrow 15th August
« Reply #24 on: August 15, 2013, 07:05:02 PM »
I realise that, I was responding to the "Tomorrow, August 15" bit.

I'm now outta here.
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... 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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