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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2005, 08:38:20 AM »
Buzz got more than that on the ground according to my sources (19?), should have specified air-air kills I guess.  I'll give you partial credit and 1 bazillion dollars for playing though.
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2005, 08:50:59 AM »
why thank you sir. I shall use the money to buy vermont, new hampshire and maine. Then we're gonna invade canada and force the french to surrender.

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« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2005, 09:04:17 AM »
Historically, the US invading Canada doesn't work out too well for some reason.
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« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2005, 09:09:43 AM »
Oh, I'd not occupy Canada. Just force the French to Surrender. I doubt we'd actually have to invade more than about a mile or so.

Call it a logistic and forigen policy exercise.
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Offline Swager

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« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2005, 11:33:40 AM »
Tommy Walker
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2005, 11:36:27 AM »
hehe...

There once was this football game between the Bish and the Knights. In the middle of the third quarter with the score 0-0 a lunch horn went off at a nearby factory.  The Bish left the field thinking the game was over....









three plays later Swager scored.

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Offline FiLtH

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« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2005, 11:57:17 AM »
You could buy Vermont and Maine, but New Hampshire aint fer sale!
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« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2005, 03:38:42 PM »
I should state why it isnt for sale....you see...its a colony of Massachusetts.
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« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2005, 03:41:52 PM »
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You could buy Vermont and Maine, but New Hampshire aint fer sale!


LIVE FREE OR DIE!!!!

(went to school in NH ;) )
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« Reply #24 on: October 04, 2005, 06:28:10 PM »
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Robert Hedman - AVG - Dec. 23rd 1941.


A note about Boyington: He is credited with 4.5 kills while flying with the AVG. The Chinese only paid him for 3.5 kills.

Boyington was notorious for over-stating his accomplishments, which was one of several factors that lead to Chennault growing to dislike him more than any other AVG pilot. Boyington eventually quit the AVG, in violation of his contract. Considered a deserter by the Chinese Air Force, he was denied transportation on Allied aircraft and had to book passage on a commercial ship to return to the USA.

You can read the sorted details on Dan Ford's site here.

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« Reply #25 on: October 04, 2005, 07:19:40 PM »
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I do believe Buzz has him beat, got 5 on the ground and two in the air Dec 12th, 1941... ??


Don't forget George Welch, who was credited with 4 kills and two probables at Pearl Harbor flying a P-40B (Welch's wingman, Ken Taylor, swears that the other two crashed off the coast). The next time he ran into the Japanese, he shot down three more flying a P-39D on December 7th 1942, the anniversary of his first 4 kills. After transferring to the 80th FS of the 8th FG; on June 21, 1943, flying the P-38H, Welch shot down 2 Zeros over Lae. Then he nailed 3 Ki-61s over Wewak on August 16. On September 4, of 1943, Welch shot down 3 Zeros and a Ki-46 Dinah.

A few weeks later, deathly ill with malaria, Welch was hospitalized. A favorite of Hap Arnold, it was deemed that he should be home as soon as he recovered.

He is credited with 16 kills and 3 probables all shot down in just 5 engagements, the only times he actually encountered Japanese aircraft. This, I believe, is the record for air to air kills per combat for the USAAF in WWII. Welch flew 348 combat missions, many in the P-39 flying close support in New Guinea.

Welch is among a small group of USAAF pilots to score kills in three different fighter types.

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Offline Cobra412

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« Reply #26 on: October 04, 2005, 07:35:29 PM »
William Shomo, The Flying Undertaker? Doubt it cause it was late in the war. 7 kills in one mission.
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« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2005, 07:43:16 PM »
George Preddy killed 6 in one day while hung over and not having slept the previous night.  he was angry about having been posted to flight duty.

Marseilles killed 17 P-40s single handedly while his wingman circled above providing info about fighters on his 6
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« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2005, 11:26:17 PM »
George Welch
- First US pilot to shoot down four aircraft in a single day, December 7, 1941
Edward O'Hare
- First US pilot to shoot down five aircraft in a single day, February 20, 1942
Neel Kearby
- First US pilot to shoot down six aircraft in a single day, October 11, 1943
William Levarette
- First US pilot to shoot down seven aircraft in a single day, October 9, 1943
David McCampbell
- First US pilot to shoot down nine aircraft in a single day, October 24, 1944

OTHERWISE.  Robert Hedman, on December 23, 1941, he was the first American pilot to down five enemy aircraft in a single day.
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« Reply #29 on: October 05, 2005, 12:07:00 AM »
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David McCampbell
- First US pilot to shoot down nine aircraft in a single day, October 24, 1944


Kept score with a pencil on his control panel.

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