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Offline Squire

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TBD Devastator
« on: March 05, 2018, 03:29:49 PM »
It's been asked for before but we need it for SEA setups for Coral Sea, Midway, Pearl Harbor, and the 1942 Carrier Raids, ect.

So bump we go.  ;)
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Re: TBD Devastator
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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2018, 03:46:16 PM »
+1

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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2018, 05:10:05 PM »
It's been asked for before but we need it for SEA setups for Coral Sea, Midway, Pearl Harbor, and the 1942 Carrier Raids, ect.

So bump we go.  ;)
Yep. At the very very least a TBF would be welcomed.
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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2018, 08:32:55 PM »
    Sounds  good, and how about an earlier model B17 and B24 too.    Yeah Right.  :)

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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2018, 06:00:38 AM »
Yep. At the very very least a TBF would be welcomed.

Isn't the TBM just a TBF made by General Motors?
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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2018, 06:51:58 AM »
Isn't the TBM just a TBF made by General Motors?
Basically it is, but there's some minor changes to armament, the engine, and the lack of wing hardpoints. It won't fill the void of the TBD, but it brings us closer from having to use a mid-1944 aircraft in early setups.
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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2018, 10:50:06 AM »
silly question, how come the rear guy (gunner/navigator?) is forward in one aircraft and then towards the rear on another? 

I can't believe that he has a nice recliner back there...
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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2018, 11:03:04 AM »
silly question, how come the rear guy (gunner/navigator?) is forward in one aircraft and then towards the rear on another? 

I can't believe that he has a nice recliner back there...

TBD had three crew members.  The crewman in the middle was the Torpedo Officer (bombardier )/Navigator, the crewman in the rear was the rear gunner/radio operator.  The rear gunner was able to swivel his seat to sit forward if needed (probably to use the radio) and to the rear to man the defensive guns.

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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2018, 12:01:52 PM »
Ok that makes sense... the top image I can see three heads, but in the bottom pic I can only see two in each aircraft...
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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2018, 04:15:28 PM »
+1!
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Re: TBD Devastator
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2018, 06:08:13 PM »
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