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I enjoyed this video tks for sharing

Magnificent video. Thank You!

I watched all ten clips in their entirety. Moving film. Thank you.

I read where 1015 examples were constructed. Remarkable considering it was designed by a socialist regime. One of my nightmares has always been some rogues commandeering an aging airliner, perhaps one such as this, and flying a thermonuclear device over a western city on a one way mission...

“Stacked up corpses were being hauled away on lorries. Everywhere there was the stench of the dead and of smoke. I saw the places on the pavement where people had been roasted to death. At last I comprehended first-hand what an air-raid meant. I turned back, sick and scared. Later I learned that...

I did a quick Google for you b-29s lost bombing Japan - Google Search

Thought I would direct bomber fans to a url I found. Down at the bottom of the link they get into the real dreamy stuff Messerschmitt Me 264 Luft '46 Entry

A good book to read about Nazi bombers is entitled: Luftwaffe Over America, subtitled, The Secret Plans to Bomb the United States in World War II. Written by Manfred Griehl. It is fairly dryly written but quite detailed chronologically as to the bomber types on the drawing board and a few...

He took me up one time in an Aero Commander. We had flown out of Palomar Airport in San Diego County to Indio, out in the desert. There was an air show there and we toured the place briefly, then flew back to the coast. It was pretty overcast, but suddenly an opening appeared below us. Down...

It was my good fortune to do some flying with an ex WW2 P-38 fighter jock. He told me one time he was flying to Hawaii back in the Seventies as a passenger and saw the pilot come on board (this was back before the days of terrorists) and realized it was one of his old squadron mates. When the...

Are these 109 Emil or E versions? Thanks for sharing.

Well done, sir. Thank you.

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Most of the Japanese planes seemed to burn readily, revealing a lack of self sealing tanks. Do not think the guy in the chute was being machine gunned and, if he was, he was still intact which would be a virtual impossibility with six fifty cal machine guns working. We were not there, however...