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    Shot Down Planes Underwater

    WOW very cool pictures. As a teenager growing up in Hawaii I did alot of freediving spearing fish and grabbing lobsters (no Gameboys back then). One place I dove frequently since it was close to home was off Lanikai on the island of Oahu. One day while diving near the Mokulua Islands I...
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    Day At The Museum

    Just wanted to share a few pictures I took at the newly dedicated Pacific Air Museum located on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. I took my Dad there on April 7, 2007 3 days after my mother's passing hoping that a father son outing would get us out of the house and cheer him up even a little. I'm...
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    A Tribute to Beaufighters

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8HuO6vvnjg
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    P-47s in Action, Pretty Cool

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Mvy7uNHxY
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    Pacific Airfields

    Thanks for the Sansapore information! My dad during WWII served with the US Army Amhpibious Engineers 543rd Boat Shore Regiment Company B, and for a time he was stationed at Sansapore, New Guinea in the rank of 2dn Lt.. My dad made friends with many Navy Personel, and he recalled a time due...
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    Interesting CGI Hayate versus P-51

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPKHC_VXkI
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    ALOHA from Maui

    Mahalo a nui loa for the warm welcome, what a great international bunch here, I hope to post some flying adventures of my dad's in the South Pacific including a bombing mission he flew with the PBY "Black Cats" out of Sansapore, got an engine shot out on that one.
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    Worst aircraft of WW2?

    Yup, deffinately alot worse planes than the "Vibrator" thus just worthy of dishonorable mention, maybe on the top ten worst of U.S. planes at U.S. entry into war. Good Vindicator info here: Chance-Vought SB2U Vindicator, by Jack McKillop
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    ALOHA from Maui

    ALOHA from Maui, Hawaii, first time here. My father is veteran of the Pacific Theatre an Officer in the US Army Amphibious Engineers Company B, 3rd Enginee Boat and Shore Regiment 3rd Engineer Special Brigade. He served in New Guinea and outlying Islands, the Philipines, and finally as...
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    Worst aircraft of WW2?

    Honorable (dishonorable?) mention should go to the Chance Vought SB2U Vindicator (aka "Vibrator"). No SB2U survived the war; approximately 30 percent were lost in combat while 50 percent were lost due to accidents and attrition.
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