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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #136 on: June 11, 2016, 09:20:30 PM »
Dam trees!

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #137 on: August 01, 2016, 05:50:04 PM »
p-61....nice

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #138 on: August 01, 2016, 05:51:36 PM »
Glass nose P-38.  I believe this is the first P-38 i have seen with a camo pattern. 


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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #139 on: August 01, 2016, 05:57:37 PM »
Wire ripped into the B-24.  Getting mixed information on this.  One story, which i never heard before, 109s would drag a long cable wire getting above the bombers formation and drop it onto them.  Another was Ju-88s doing the same method, but explosives attached onto the wire.

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #140 on: August 01, 2016, 06:12:38 PM »
I really never put into thought if navy fighters planes get their machine guns on the deck or something.  Interesting

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #141 on: August 01, 2016, 06:43:23 PM »
Glass nose P-38.  I believe this is the first P-38 i have seen with a camo pattern. 


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I think some of the early P-38s in the MTO had a camo paint scheme when they arrived in theater.

Here is an RAF evaluation P-38 with a camo pattern.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #142 on: August 01, 2016, 07:39:27 PM »
I don't have a real life WWII Aircraft. None of you do either so stop fronting.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #143 on: August 01, 2016, 09:35:30 PM »
I think some of the early P-38s in the MTO had a camo paint scheme when they arrived in theater.

Here is an RAF evaluation P-38 with a camo pattern.
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I just notice some of the other pic I posted with the P-38 has simuler camo skin. 
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« Reply #144 on: August 01, 2016, 10:13:23 PM »
Bf 109 K-4 W.Nr. 33. ..., unit unknown, Bad Aibling, 8 May 1945. Source: US Signal Corps via facebook.com. by Marc-André Haldimann, on Flickr

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Extracted from a movie, this picture captures the moment just after the landing 22nd Tac. recon Sqn F-6 D-10-NT 44-12470 flown by Frederick W. BUEHL caught the right wing tip of the Bf 109 K-4. The F-6 cartwheels to its destruction, the pilot surviving; shaken out of its mounting, the DB 605 D of the Bf 109 K-4 shows towards the photographer the engine cowling with its characteristic late Bodenwöhr or Flossenbürg produced Bf 109 K-4 camouflage in the 332 ... 335 ... W.Nr. batch. Picture courtesy of Alfred Monzat, War planes Group, Facebook.com, 18 December 2013.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #146 on: August 06, 2016, 01:02:14 PM »
Indeed. At least we know the pony pilot survived the crash.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #147 on: August 27, 2016, 12:48:34 PM »
It is my understanding that the inner engine got hit by flack, broke off and hit the outer prop. 

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« Reply #148 on: August 27, 2016, 12:54:22 PM »
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #149 on: August 27, 2016, 01:33:22 PM »
nope, didn't work   :(