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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Yenny on December 19, 2008, 09:11:43 PM
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I found a good clip bout P-38 so I figure I'll share it w/ you 38 dweebs. It's a classic clip.
Dear Skuzzie,
It's safe for work~
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=206_1229725173
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When I read the subject I thought there as actually a movie about P38s. Maybe a squadron in the eightth during the war. Someone should do it! Not so much obvious cgi though...
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I want a blue-skinned 38!!!! :furious
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I want a blue-skinned 38!!!! :furious
Why? To match your... *ahem*, sorry Skuzzy. :D
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When I read the subject I thought there as actually a movie about P38s. Maybe a squadron in the eightth during the war. Someone should do it! Not so much obvious cgi though...
The only movie with a lot of P-38 action in it is "A Guy Named Joe", with Spencer Tracey, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, and Irene Dunne, it's a pretty damned good little movie, although it is mostly fantasy.
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I want a blue-skinned 38!!!! :furious
They don't come with guns. What fun is that?
wrongway
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"The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in active production throughout the duration of American involvement in the war, from Pearl Harbor to VJ Day."
Is that true? :huh
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Yes, it is.
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Yes.
The first P-38Ds began to reach USAAF units in August 1941.
Delays in getting the new production line started resulted in only 113 P-38L-5-VNs being delivered to the USAAF by the end of the war in August of 1945.
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p38.html
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The P-38L-5-Vn was built by Consolidated Vultee in Nashville. They were the only plant contracted to second source the P-38. Evidently no one was ever smart enough to figure out that Consolidated Vultee, part of the Consolidated group that built large aircraft, would have done better to produce the B-17 bombers that Lockheed was producing, and allowing Lockheed to use that valuable production capacity to possibly double the production of P-38 fighters. It took Consolidated Vultee years to produce a paltry 113 P-38 fighters. So valuable and desired by the USAAF was the P-38 that throughout the entire war no production delays by Lockheed were tolerated regardless of the reason.
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When I read the subject I thought there as actually a movie about P38s. Maybe a squadron in the eightth during the war. Someone should do it! Not so much obvious cgi though...
They should do Rabaul, with the 475th and the 8th FGs. Danny Roberts, Dick Bong, Tommy McGuire... :aok
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Yes.
The first P-38Ds began to reach USAAF units in August 1941.
Delays in getting the new production line started resulted in only 113 P-38L-5-VNs being delivered to the USAAF by the end of the war in August of 1945.
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p38.html
what about the p-40's? pretty sure they had some around pearl? dunno if they stopped production towards the end of the war?
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They don't come with guns. What fun is that?
wrongway
ammo? i doan need no steekin' ammo!! :rock
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what about the p-40's? pretty sure they had some around pearl? dunno if they stopped production towards the end of the war?
Stopped building them in mid '44.