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Special Events Forums => Friday Squad Operations => Topic started by: CAP1 on December 26, 2012, 10:19:40 PM
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guys, i apologize for being a bit late getting this out. i should've done it before christmas, but i was running like a loon, trying to get everyones cars donw before the holidaze....then spent yesterday at my cousins with family, and eating about a weeks worth of food in a single day.
The handful of American mercenaries who scorched earth and sky in defense of China were officially known as the American Volunteer Group (AVG), but, of course, are best remembered as the 'Flying Tigers'-the English translation of Fei Hou. The nickname was bestowed by the grateful Chinese after the American pilots attacked a large number of Japanese fighters over Kunming on December 20, 1941.
so here it is........FLYING TIGERS BABY!!
http://www.ahevents.org/fso-current-next-event.html
i bet no one knows where the tigers got their sharks teeth from. :devil
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guys, i apologize for being a bit late getting this out. i should've done it before christmas, but i was running like a loon, trying to get everyones cars donw before the holidaze....then spent yesterday at my cousins with family, and eating about a weeks worth of food in a single day.
The handful of American mercenaries who scorched earth and sky in defense of China were officially known as the American Volunteer Group (AVG), but, of course, are best remembered as the 'Flying Tigers'-the English translation of Fei Hou. The nickname was bestowed by the grateful Chinese after the American pilots attacked a large number of Japanese fighters over Kunming on December 20, 1941.
so here it is........FLYING TIGERS BABY!!
http://www.ahevents.org/fso-current-next-event.html
i bet no one knows where the tigers got their sharks teeth from. :devil
I do :aok
it is not what most people think
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I wish I was in Russia. :noid
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I didn't know, but I do now!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_art#History
Looking forward to the FSO!
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I didn't know, but I do now!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_art#History
Looking forward to the FSO!
you're close.......... :devil
also.....does anyone know who designed the "flying tiger" that's on the side? or how many p40's were operational at any given time? the answer to the second one shocked me.
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III./JG11 - updated.
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guys, i apologize for being a bit late getting this out. i should've done it before christmas, but i was running like a loon, trying to get everyones cars donw before the holidaze....then spent yesterday at my cousins with family, and eating about a weeks worth of food in a single day.
i bet no one knows where the tigers got their sharks teeth from. :devil
I know it belongs to the House of the Mouse.
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III./JG11 - updated.
thank you sir! :aok
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shameless bump. i see a few squads haven't updated their side/ride preferences. it's 10:45pm friday dec. 28, 2012. i'm going to wait till tomorrow night(12-29-2012) to do assignments, to give you guys time to update. as soon as i'm home from work, they're getting done, and will be sent out. please update, ASAP.
thanks guys!!
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Ak's Updated
:salute
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Gunfighters updated, I apologise if I'm to late. :salute
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No changes for the VMF-222.
<S>
Edgar
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raz...i ain't perfect......it's ok. :aok
thanks edgar!
i'll be posting side assignments/cic duties shortly. before i pass out for the night tonight. objectives will be out by tomorrow afternoon.
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i bet no one knows where the tigers got their sharks teeth from.
The British in North Africa. "The Sunday edition of the “Times of India” carried a color photo in its magazine section of an RAF plane in North Africa with the shark mouth painted on it. It was an instantaneous hit with our whole group and within days all our planes were adorned with it. It fit the P-40 perfectly."
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The British in North Africa. "The Sunday edition of the “Times of India” carried a color photo in its magazine section of an RAF plane in North Africa with the shark mouth painted on it. It was an instantaneous hit with our whole group and within days all our planes were adorned with it. It fit the P-40 perfectly."
does not sound correct......as far as I know....(I am no expert) but I am pretty sure the shark mouth comes from someone seeing it on a 110.....Yes I was surprised when I read that.......I don't remember where I read it, I read it when I was doing research for the P40 skins I did.
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does not sound correct......as far as I know....(I am no expert) but I am pretty sure the shark mouth comes from someone seeing it on a 110.....Yes I was surprised when I read that.......I don't remember where I read it, I read it when I was doing research for the P40 skins I did.
THAT'S how you knew!! i was shocked as well. i'll see if i kept the page when i visited it. i found it doing research for this setup. :aok
found it.....
AVG fighter aircraft were painted with a large shark face on the front of the aircraft. This was done after pilots saw a photograph of a P-40 of No. 112 Squadron RAF in North Africa,[11] which in turn had adopted the shark face from German pilots of the Luftwaffe's ZG 76 heavy fighter wing, flying Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighters in Crete. (The AVG nose-art is variously credited to Charles Bond[12] and Erik Shilling.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers
scroll half way fdown left side.
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I believe the RAF in North Africa were the first Allied units to apply the mako shark mouth. They were flying Warhawks. JU87 and Bf110 units also used the design prior to the AVG in China.
Chennault saw a picture of a ZG76 Bf110 with the design, and used it saying. "I like it".
(http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss35/stampf/hai.jpg)
I have seen it on Bf109's as well.
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THAT'S how you knew!! i was shocked as well. i'll see if i kept the page when i visited it. i found it doing research for this setup. :aok
found it.....
AVG fighter aircraft were painted with a large shark face on the front of the aircraft. This was done after pilots saw a photograph of a P-40 of No. 112 Squadron RAF in North Africa,[11] which in turn had adopted the shark face from German pilots of the Luftwaffe's ZG 76 heavy fighter wing, flying Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighters in Crete. (The AVG nose-art is variously credited to Charles Bond[12] and Erik Shilling.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers
scroll half way fdown left side.
ya I did one of the 112.....must be when I read it.....I thought it was quit funny them taking a design from the Germans....
I will say it is by far my favorite nose art on any plane....loved the Flying Tigers since I was a little kid.....
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The shark's mouth motif also came to the Pacific in another direction with 457 RAAF. This was through Clive Caldwell RAAF who had recently commanded 112Sqn RAF in the Middle East before being sent home to fly in the direct defence of Australia. Caldwell was the highest p40 scoring pilot of the war. His total (including later kills in the Pacific with Spitfire) was 28.5 kills 6 probables and 15 damaged. He resigned his commission before the end of the war in protest at the way Australian Squadrons were being "misused" when McArthur insisted that only U.S. combat formations should be used to liberate the Philippines.
http://www.starduststudios.com/shark.htm (http://www.starduststudios.com/shark.htm)
(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSeRZL-pBdFdGvuV-9hDOU0-v0wxO3t26u2QqUc562nW8MXVGUE1Q)
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Nevermind....
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I believe the RAF in North Africa were the first Allied units to apply the mako shark mouth. They were flying Warhawks. JU87 and Bf110 units also used the design prior to the AVG in China.
Chennault saw a picture of a ZG76 Bf110 with the design, and used it saying. "I like it".
(http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss35/stampf/hai.jpg)
I have seen it on Bf109's as well.
I just bought an orig. picture of one of ZG76s BF110s for my collection....
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/110-1.jpg)
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I just bought an orig. picture of one of ZG76s BF110s for my collection....
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/110-1.jpg)
Sweet. :aok