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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Furball on September 18, 2003, 06:50:37 AM

Title: what an incredible story
Post by: Furball on September 18, 2003, 06:50:37 AM

Read this:

http://www.n461.com/n461_story.html

Title: what an incredible story
Post by: ra on September 18, 2003, 08:02:48 AM

I read somewhere that this event caused the LW to warn its pilots that Sunderlands may be armed with 37mm cannons.

Title: what an incredible story
Post by: Gunthr on September 18, 2003, 10:22:38 AM

Man that was a good read. Thx Furball. I've never read anything about the Sunderland before.

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Post by: gofaster on September 18, 2003, 12:22:54 PM

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Nothing startling about them, just a good average bunch, yet on 2nd June 1943 they fought and won a battle in the Bay of Biscay which virtually stands alone in the history of Coastal Command. Nine Australians and two Englishmen in that lone and solitary Short Sunderland N/461 routed an overwhelming enemy force which engaged them with the utmost fury and determination. Eight Junkers 88 twin-engined heavy fighters manned by thirty-two courageous Germans armed with fixed and free-firing cannons and heavy-calibre machine-guns, closed in combat with the Short Sunderland twenty times in three-quarters of an hour.

Interesting story.  A bit flowery in prose, but interesting.

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Post by: Halo on September 18, 2003, 01:18:47 PM

Great story, thanks, Furball.  Imagine if the Sunderland had been armed with .50s.

Title: what an incredible story
Post by: mia389 on September 18, 2003, 01:38:27 PM

lol
Praise the Lord and pass the amunition

Title: what an incredible story
Post by: Pooh21 on September 18, 2003, 01:55:52 PM

Great Story
I always liked Sunderlands.

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Post by: AWMac on September 18, 2003, 02:45:01 PM

Thx Furball.