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    U-Boats in the Pacific

    I read somewhere that a german "cargo sub" delivered a bunch ( 800?) of MG 151/20's to Japan, and those where used in the firts batch of Ki-61 Hein. Any truth to that? Another tale is that a me-109e was also delivered the same way, and test flown by Japan to comparison against it own fighters...
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    Sunderland vs. eight Ju 88's

    The book in question is "Gret aircraft of WWII" by Alfred Price and Mike Spick. It is a 1997 book, printed in England by Abbeydale Press. Regards
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    Anti Aircraft Weapons....

    I might be wrong, but it looks to me that the picture Soren posted IS NOT a Bofors AAA, but rather a 50. cal mounted on a remote controlled APV turret. Notice the grenade launchers, and the muzzel, tipycall M3...
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    Pzkpfw V Panther its variants.

    Well , if the tank belong to the Viking division , it is tecnacally not a " stupid fritz" :D since all the man in the 5 SS were non-german foreign voluntaries.
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    Pzkpfw V Panther its variants.

    Regarding some of the things said earlier on this topic, I have to coment that the Panther was in fact a great weapon, and the germans did made a lot of strategic mistakes in its use, buit if anything the biggest one was to speed so much the development of this tank. They should had given the...
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    Help with 1946

    I discover a way to make it work: when the game is loading I have to press ESC as soon as the movie starts. For some bizarre reason, if I let it play for more than miliseconds it becomes impossible to stop till it ends and then the computer will freeze. If UI stopo the movie right at the...
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    Help with 1946

    I had been playing for years with FB + AEP, and just bought 1946. Installed it , but it simple wont play right. Whem I start the game, it goes to the loading page , then to the presentation movie ( which I can stop using Esc) and then to the initial page. There it freezes, and that is just it...
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    Luftwaffe Cannons and Machineguns topic.

    Well, if it is apreciation you are looking for, I have to say that is by far the most interisting topic on the forum, at least to me. If anything, I would ask you to post more often... Thanks!
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    Sunderland vs. eight Ju 88's

    Well, on the night of 15/16 March of 1944 a Lancaster from No. 617 was on a mission to bomb Metz when it was attacked by 3 Me-110 night fighters. The rear gunner on the Lancaster was Flight Sergent T. J. McLeans, a scot in his second tour who already had five kill to his credit at that...
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    "Wings of a Dream" - Brazilian Aviation Museum

    Well, the 109 in this collection has a very nice history. It was based in Finland, and damage in combat with Soviet fighters. The pilot managed to land on a frozen lake in Norway, but the plane just sited there until the lake de-froze. It sunk and it was only raised again on the 80’s. Sadly, the...
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    zero vs. 109

    I might be wrong, but I read somewhere that the allies believed the Hein was based on the Italian Folgores, hence the nickname "Tony". BTW, the me-109E provided to japan was sent by long range sub, crated. Together it also went a big ( 600?) load og MG 151/20. Most of those were used in the...
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    Four German planes shot down in a single flight...

    To me, the most incredible action described on " legends of WWII" from the Aircraft of the aces series is the flight by Capt William Schomo and Lt Paul Lipscomb on Mustangs, January 1945, in the Philipinies. They attacked a japanese formation of 12 single engines and 1 bomber. Schomo downed 6...
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    Did the US save Europe in WW2?

    This a whole other discussion, I don´t wanna get in to now. We will just disagree on that. In my scenario, I will always consider that Pearl Harbor never happened.
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    Did the US save Europe in WW2?

    Something that people are forgeting: Well , we all agree that the most important ground front would be on Russia. Let´s say the soviets are finally wining, and begin to pushing back the germans. We still don´t have a ground front in France, nor the possibility of one in the short term. Anyone...
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    Did the US save Europe in WW2?

    Well , I n my opinion, in creating this scenario we can´t even consider the possibility of Japan attacking Pearl Harbor and the US fighting only in the Pacific. It is not credible at all. Either they stay out of the war or they would fight it in both theaters. FDR wanted to get in to the war...
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