Recent content by John Cahill

WW2artist, Yours is a fine site. Perhaps you would be interested in an anecdote. In the 1970s, I worked with a good ol' boy who had been a ball turret gunner on B-17s flying out of southern Italy. In conversation about his experiences, I will not recount the racist language he used when...

IIRC, all I know is that it was a predecessor of the famed fighter off the board in the early 1930s. Had fixed undercarriage. Tended, I think, to wing weakness. Quite experimental. John

Hello All, Like everyone else, I really like looking at "real" aircraft, so it is not tribulation for me to be here trying to track down the group number of an RAF group flying out of Tunisia in 1943. I'll be posting my research question someplace else (as well). I have inferred...