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Offline Scherf

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USAAF Buff Fans
« on: February 18, 2013, 06:24:39 PM »
If you've got a quiet 51 mins to burn, have a look at this vid by an 8th AF lead navigator.

Starts off kind of slow with the minutiae of the Gee hyperbolic navigation system, but also has good crew and operational info:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_BCbFqQeI
... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB