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Title: Seventy-one years ago today, on July 10, 1942...
Post by: Bino on July 10, 2013, 10:22:54 AM

...an American PBY Catalina piloted by Lieutenant William "Bill" Thies spotted the salvageable wreck of a Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" on Akutan Island.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/AkutanZero1.jpg)


More here:

http://www.amazon.com/Kogas-Zero-Fighter-Changed-Alaska/dp/0929521560/ref=pd_sim_b_1 (http://www.amazon.com/Kogas-Zero-Fighter-Changed-Alaska/dp/0929521560/ref=pd_sim_b_1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akutan_Zero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akutan_Zero)

Title: Re: Seventy-one years ago today, on July 10, 1942...
Post by: EskimoJoe on July 10, 2013, 12:37:43 PM

Many don't realize how close Japan actually is to Alaska.

(http://www.fotosimagenes.org/imagenes/islas-aleutianas-6.jpg)

Title: Re: Seventy-one years ago today, on July 10, 1942...
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 10, 2013, 02:24:55 PM

Quote from: EskimoJoe on July 10, 2013, 12:37:43 PM

Many don't realize how close Japan actually is to Alaska.

(http://www.fotosimagenes.org/imagenes/islas-aleutianas-6.jpg)

Close enough that we were sending PV-1s and PV-2s from the Aleutian Islands to bomb the Japanese islands of Paramushiro and Shimushu in the Kurile Island chain in 1943.

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