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Title: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: Greebo on May 30, 2015, 04:40:09 AM
Thanks to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this skin.

In early 1944 the USAAF's 492nd Bomb Group began operations using modified B-24s to drop OSS agents and supplies into occupied Europe. They also operated a number of Mosquito Mk XVIs equipped with Joan Eleanor radio equipment. The idea was the Mosquito would fly at night to a pre-arranged time and place where an OSS operator in the aircraft's bomb bay would conduct a recorded voice conversation with the agent on the ground. These short range VHF signals were virtually impossible to intercept by the Germans and the agent's transmitter weighed only one pound, as opposed to around thirty pounds for the old morse sets used before.

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c155/Jonchaz/Screenshots%20USA/492nd_BG_Mosquito_Mk_XVI_SC1_zpsq32zilnh.jpg)

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c155/Jonchaz/Screenshots%20USA/492nd_BG_Mosquito_Mk_XVI_SC2_zpskgwkjpbd.jpg)

(http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af142/barneybolac/0157.jpg)
Title: Re: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: lyric1 on May 30, 2015, 08:55:16 AM
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Title: Re: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: Dragon Tamer on May 30, 2015, 10:10:02 AM
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Title: Re: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: Interceptor on May 31, 2015, 07:51:35 AM
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Title: Re: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: Scherf on May 31, 2015, 08:40:52 AM
I love you, man.
Title: Re: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: Nefarious on June 02, 2015, 07:13:26 PM
Nice. Black Ops  :rock
Title: Re: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: Hajo on June 02, 2015, 07:39:08 PM
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Title: Re: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: Muzzy on June 02, 2015, 10:41:59 PM
I hope we get the opportunity to use this on night or evening missions.
Title: Re: Carpetbaggers Mosquito
Post by: steely07 on June 03, 2015, 09:32:28 PM
Love me some night skins, I'm going to fly this one exclusively!, great job Greebo <S>