Recent content by Hermie

High Road to China has some great scenes. I also liked The Great Waldo Pepper which had a really good final scene.

It was not a Marine aircraft, it was surplused to the flying club at Cherry point.

Well as I said I am new to your forum and I guess I didn't quite make myself clear. The essence of what I was trying to get at is which plane would be the best for a typical, if there is such a thing, WW2 pilot to fly in a combat arena and not only survive but contribute to the mission. Taking...

I am new to the site and this may have been discussed before, but what was the most pilot friendly fighter of WW2. Given that the vast majority of WW2 fighter pilots were felatively low time pilots it would seem that some aircraft were better suited for them. I have read that the P-47 was a...

Several years ago a friend called and told me his brother in law who was stationed at Cherry Point NC was flying up in a T-34A. He was in the Mrines and they had a couple in their flying club. He wanted to know if I wanted to fly with him. Hell yea. Back then I lived about a mile and and a...

There are certainly some heroes that exist today. Whether they will become legends is not very probable. Today's media, at least in the U.S. is more inclined to look for an incident that can be made to appear as negatively as possible. While they pay lip service to the servicemen and women...

That makes more sense but as I said I read it quite a while ago. It would make a great Dogfights show. The one tonight is hardly about dogfights. The attack on Japanese fleet units was hardly a dogfight.

Several years ago I read an account of this action in a book I had. It's been to long ago to give you the source but what you heard is pretty much what was in the book The P-38's were flying ground support and accidntly attacked the Russians who called in air support. A dogfight developed and...

I'll have to take a closer look later. Have to go cut some firewood now. Thanks for the info.

I was surfing for some info on P-38's and found your site. As I said the P-38 holds particular fascination for me but all WW2 aircraft interests me. My Dad was in the 8th during WW2 and I used to have a "yearbook" from his class at Kelly AFB. He was a bombardier on B-24's. I went to Reno...

Hi, Stumbled on your forum and found it fascinating. Always have been interested in WW2 aviation and particularly a fan of the P-38. JUst wamted to say hello.