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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Baumer on August 03, 2010, 10:22:03 AM
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I found a couple of interesting photo's of Admiral Yamamoto that I thought I'd pass along. These are from April of 1943 while he was at Rabaul.
(http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/mokyme/Admiral%20Yamamoto/A6M3_yamamoto_rabaul_1943-W-56.jpg)
(http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/mokyme/Admiral%20Yamamoto/A6M2_Zer0-sen_Yamamoto_Rabaul_1943-.jpg)
<S> Baumer
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What plane is that in the background? Looks like a Ki-43, not an 84.
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Long live the P-38.
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What plane is that in the background? Looks like a Ki-43, not an 84.
I believe they are A6M's in both pictures.
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*grrr.....*
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and the hat trick...
*sigh*
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Long live the P-38.
:rofl
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Well they are cited as an A6M3 in the first photo, and a A6M2 in the second.
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What makes these photos really interesting is they show Yamamoto's last days before being ambushed and killed by US P-38s. Would be interesting to find out the exact day in April these pictures were taken but my guess was these pictures were taken the same day he left Rabaul and headed to the Ballele Airfield in the Solomon Islands and was killed by US P-38s (4/18/43).
ack-ack
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That's what I was thinking Ack-Ack.
According to Wikipedia (I know) this is the last known photo of him on April 18th.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Yamamoto_last_image_alive.jpg)
So I suspect the two I posted are very close to this as well.
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I keep looking at them and thinking, "Who on earth wears dress whites to tour a muddy forward air base in the Solomons?"
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He's a lot shorter than I remember.
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Long live the P-38.
:rofl
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A6M3s looks to be.
WTG Soulyss on the hat trick :lol
perdweeb
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Poor tard knew Japan was making a mistake attacking the US.
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z229/Swinging_Sixties/Pics%20-%20Iconic/1941PearlHarbour001USSShaw.jpg)
1941 Pearl Harbour
At 07:58, 07 December 1941, the alarm went out: “Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is not drill!” Although the Americans had received warnings (and ignored them), surprise was complete. Despite within seven minutes after the first attack, nearly all navy shipboard anti-aircraft guns were manned and in action, American losses were heavy: USS West Virginia, Tennessee and Arizona, along with the battleships Shaw, California, Oklahoma and Nevada. However, the aircraft carriers were at sea and escaped much to the disappointment of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Combined Fleet. He hoped that a quick, surprise attack on the US fleet would make the Americans petition for peace, leaving the Pacific open for the Japanese expansion. He was said to have commented: “we can run wild for six months or a year, but after that I have utterly no confidence.” On the US side, 188 aircraft were destroyed and 155 aircraft damaged as opposed to the Japanese losses of 27. Over two thousand US military were killed but most of the civilian casualties during the attack came from them being hit by anti-aircraft bullets falling back to earth. The loss was humiliating and total.
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I wonder if Beaufighters had intercepted and shot down and killed General Rommel if you guys would be saying "Long live the Beaufighter" to pictures of Rommel? Somehow I doubt it.
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I wonder if Beaufighters had intercepted and shot down and killed General Rommel if you guys would be saying "Long live the Beaufighter" to pictures of Rommel? Somehow I doubt it.
If and only if......
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I keep looking at them and thinking, "Who on earth wears dress whites to tour a muddy forward air base in the Solomons?"
Thank god it's not after Labor Day,huh?
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I wonder if Beaufighters had intercepted and shot down and killed General Rommel if you guys would be saying "Long live the Beaufighter" to pictures of Rommel? Somehow I doubt it.
There is a difference in the American minds between the architect of the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor and some German field marshal that was running around the African desert.
(http://www.ehangar.com/printgallery/uploadImg/print/aa_p38_yamamoto_big.jpg)
Long live the "two planes, one pilot!"
ack-ack
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I wonder if Beaufighters had intercepted and shot down and killed General Rommel if you guys would be saying "Long live the Beaufighter" to pictures of Rommel? Somehow I doubt it.
Did you have a hatred for all things U.S. before you played AH or is that something you developed after reading the wish list one too many times? :bolt:
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Double post :furious