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    Adherent or Mafia?

    Name those air forces for more meaningful discussion (without booze) :)
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    Japan and Japanese

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTlD2H6uSFc Japanese vending machines, you can have dates:) I must go there
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    F4U-4 Corsair contribution in WW2

    WW2 context, Finns hated British, loved Americans
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    P-47N Thunderbolt vs. F4U-4 Corsair - Which was superior?

    Sorry being an old cynical bastard, but - Name of the "Uncle" is not revealed. In his place I would say it in every post in bold letters. - No unit or rank is revealed. -"Nazi people whose homes and belongings they seized for war reparations" I think it did not work that way, unless you are...
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    P-47N Thunderbolt vs. F4U-4 Corsair - Which was superior?

    There's a sucker born every minute- P.T. Barnum
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    Japan and Japanese

    For general Heihachiro Togo, the hero of Russian Japanese war. Tokyo journey. Sorry this is in Finnish only. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQw3jP5CHoA
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    Which popular WW2 aircraft and air combat "histories" are simply not true?

    That is what I was saying. I don't have "an approach", sorry. Jeez.:oops:
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    Which popular WW2 aircraft and air combat "histories" are simply not true?

    What doublers was installed for the spars (not local reinforcements) ? Sorry my bullshit meter just peaked.
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    445th BG Sept 27, 1944 - worst US bomb group loss, ever. Why?

    Excerpt from John Weal's book (Luftwaffe Sturmgruppen): Whatever decisions, if any, were arrived at, 27 September would, for the first time, see all three Sturmgruppen operating together in a single Gefechtsverband. The Eighth Air Force's objectives on that day included transportation networks...
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    July 17th 1945 - 65th Anniversary Of The Potsdam Conference

    Truman to others: Where are your suits ? Churchill to Truman: Your shoes are different colors, FU. Stalin: In Soviet Union I can be naked and people still applaud, the rest are in Gulags. Truman: We have this atomic bomb. Stalin: LOL I knew it before you, succer. Truman and Stalin to Churchill...
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    Your favourite open cockpit monoplane fighter?

    Fiat G.50 In the Continuation War it had better air-combat win/loss ratio (44:1) than the Brewster and the Bf109 (although there is a couple of reasons why, independent of the plane performance).
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    Greg strikes again - Bf 109G-6 was so slow compared to P-51D

    Sighard F. Hörner did say that G6 could fly 800km/h (500 mph for you muricans) if everything was perfect and if pigs could fly (in theory).
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