Recent content by pgf_666

Ayh...That's why they want the Zekes....

The F-6 was quite good..... And remember, Ike flew over Normandy in one on D+1....

But if the RAF still has Hurries, and maybe even a few Spits--for Eleven Group....

Ah....Ma Deuce?

But destroy all the airfields close enough to the Chanel, now he has to send bombers without escorts--and BoB pretty much proved that the '110 was useless as such--and it's 17 September but way earlier.... Or hit Dresden, now the DLW has to pull back a lot of those fighters from Abbeville....

OK, just a point--What the guy is saying is that the Spit pilots have to ry and dedstroy the bombers, '109s & such are just a very nasty nusence. Thr '109s, on the other hand, need only concentrate on the RAF fighters so the only time Spits engage DLW fighters is when defending against a German...

If I remember correctly, the 8th's pilots had to get 25 good missions under their belts.... The Special Attack groups, not so much....

Nine! Mel's was at the corner of Holt and--was it Towne or San Antonio? I ate there quite often in the '60s,'70's '80s, etc.The chocolate shakes....(sigh)

Ah, apparently y comment was not quite clear--it was P-40 F's & L's his unit had; he didn't specify the variant(s) of the P-38s. And I've always suspected that the units involved were Groups, but I never pick nits with a fellow carrying 2 .44 magnums.....

There is a bit of ambiguity ib the question; just when are we talking about? You rad contemporary comments about these, and many others, before those pesky BFs had their say, and you'd think that the war was already won. After, eh, not so much. Of course, this never has happened here in the...

O.K., back in the '70s, when I was going to Cal Poly, Pomona, I would take a bus from good ol' 'Cow Plopy' down to Holt and Gary to transfer to another one that took me to Riverside, where I was living. Sometimes I would miss the connection, and have to wait an hour or so for the next one. Many...

Could it just possibly be that the -M was merely the engine test bed for the production M, perhaps explaining the transfer to California? And has anyone found authoritative illustrations of the engine compartment mods? Just a thought....

Of course, it's all a matter of taste, but my current favorites are Venus & Serena. Hour from now, ¿qien sabe?

Overall, as a movie, for me, it's "Pearl Harbor". Generally speaking, bomber pilots flew bombers, fighter pilots flew fighters, etc. I couldn't hear half the dialogue for the screams of "Nnooooo!!!"...mine.