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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Henrique Jitsu on February 02, 2006, 08:34:24 PM
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Hi,I was wondering if there are brazilian skins in aces high.I found one for the P47 and would like if there's more.
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As far as I know/am aware, the P-47 I done is the only one.
Did they use anything else?
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Just the 1st Fighter Group, that was assigned to the US 350th Fighter Group. Jug pilots that did their job well.
"On 18 December 1943, its military established the First Fighter Group to accompany a Brazilian infantry division to Italy.20 Training initially on P-40s in Florida and Panama, the group moved in June 1944 to Suffolk Air Base, Long Island, New York, to transition into the P-47. On 10 September 1944, the First Fighter Group departed Newport, Virginia, on the French ship Colombie and traveled in convoy to Livorno, Italy, arriving 6 October 1944. Its first mission was flown eight days later.
The Brazilian unit was assigned to the 350th Fighter Group, USAAF. Beginning combat operations on 31 October, the Brazilians flew initially with USAAF squadrons in order to gain combat experience. On 11 November, they began operating in formations that were exclusively Brazilian. Employed as fighter-bombers, the Brazilian P-47s provided close air support and flew interdiction missions. By the time the war ended in May 1945, the First Fighter Group had flown 2546 sorties and 5465 combat hours. The group destroyed 1304 motor vehicles of various types, 13 railway engines, 250 railcars, 8 armored cars, 25 rail and highway bridges, and 31 fuel and munitions depots, shooting down 2 aircraft and damaging 9 others en route.
The combat achievements of the Brazilians did not come without losses. Of the forty-eight pilots who flew with the First Fighter Group, there were twenty-two casualties. Five pilots were killed by antiaircraft fire, eight were shot down but bailed out successfully over enemy territory, three died in flying accidents not related directly to combat operations, and six were "grounded" due to "combat fatigue." Those killed were buried initially in the Brazilian cemetery at Pistoia, Italy. Subsequently, their remains were returned to Brazil and interned in a crypt in the Monument of the Dead of the Second World War, located in Rio de Janeiro. "
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Just the 1st Fighter Group, that was assigned to the US 350th Fighter Group. Jug pilots that did their job well.
"On 18 December 1943, its military established the First Fighter Group to accompany a Brazilian infantry division to Italy.20 Training initially on P-40s in Florida and Panama, the group moved in June 1944 to Suffolk Air Base, Long Island, New York, to transition into the P-47. On 10 September 1944, the First Fighter Group departed Newport, Virginia, on the French ship Colombie and traveled in convoy to Livorno, Italy, arriving 6 October 1944. Its first mission was flown eight days later.
The Brazilian unit was assigned to the 350th Fighter Group, USAAF. Beginning combat operations on 31 October, the Brazilians flew initially with USAAF squadrons in order to gain combat experience. On 11 November, they began operating in formations that were exclusively Brazilian. Employed as fighter-bombers, the Brazilian P-47s provided close air support and flew interdiction missions. By the time the war ended in May 1945, the First Fighter Group had flown 2546 sorties and 5465 combat hours. The group destroyed 1304 motor vehicles of various types, 13 railway engines, 250 railcars, 8 armored cars, 25 rail and highway bridges, and 31 fuel and munitions depots, shooting down 2 aircraft and damaging 9 others en route.
Made me proud,where did you found it?
Originally posted by Guppy35
Subsequently, their remains were returned to Brazil and interned in a crypt in the Monument of the Dead of the Second World War, located in Rio de Janeiro. "
(http://www.citybrazil.com.br/rj/riodejaneiro/rio-guerra.jpg)
I wish I'll have a crypt like that hen I die...