Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Bad31st on December 12, 2005, 01:23:28 AM
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How about a JU52. She was used on all fronts to transport troops and could also be fitted with bomb racks and twin 7.92mm Machine guns. Maybe our poor drunks wouldn't be quite as defensless in one of these...
(http://users.cenazcom.net/~joeljacobs/images/JU52edited.JPG)
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That's why I say PBY. While she's not REALLY a troop ship, she WAS used as a supply plane (PBYs were CRITICAL to Guadalcanal as one of the few reliable means of getting supplies through). As the PBY can also take off from both water AND land that further increases her flexibility (takeoffs from airfields AND ports). Also carried guns for self-defense so would be less vulnerable, and some variants were retrofit to carry torpedoes and bombs.
That, and she'd be useful for Midway types of scenarios, requiring someone to actually FIND the enemy's flattops.
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The Ju-52 could also carry more MG's
- manually operated turret on top of the cockpit .303
- 2 .303's on either side behind the troop cabin
- 1 .303 in the same cabin, on the back
I believe some versions also carried a bucket under the plane, where a gunner could also fire a .303