That's funny. I have a soft cover book at home about the P-38 titled "the fork tailed devil." Where did that name come from, and what did the Germans call it?
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That's funny. I have a soft cover book at home about the P-38 titled "the fork tailed devil." Where did that name come from, and what did the Germans call it?1. The Tuskagee Airmen never lost a bomber they were escorting.
2. The Stuka was more vulnerable than other Dive Bomber.
3. The Germans called the P-38 the Fork Tailed Devil.
That's funny. I have a soft cover book at home about the P-38 titled "the fork tailed devil." Where did that name come from, and what did the Germans call it?
That's funny. I have a soft cover book at home about the P-38 titled "the fork tailed devil." Where did that name come from, and what did the Germans call it?
The only B-17 ball turret I've seen up close and personal had an entrance hatch in the back behind the gunner. So for the gunner to enter in flight the turret had to be tilted 90° down; ditto for evacuating. Clearly, if the power drive for the turret was shot out, the gunner was trapped unless he wanted to open the hatch and fall out backwards. Most gunners couldn't fit themselves and a chute in the ball, so that didn't leave much for options if the turret wouldn't tilt and the landing gear wouldn't come down.Also, so it's not true that on certain model B-17s the belly gunner could not get out of the turret in the event of a wheels up belly landing?
Remember the movie "Airplane?"
I hooted when they showed a Boeing 707 jet airliner, but they played audio sounds consistent with a propeller aircraft. I thought that was a good joke.
It's like being an off-road motorcycle rider and seeing these old movies where they dub in the sound of a 2-stroke engine when they show a 4-stroke bike or vice versa. I always thought that was stupid ... or intentionally funny, I was never sure which. So, I chose to be entertained and laughed at it.
Hey Elmas,
What if you wanted to make the tank movie, but the only tansk you could get were the second one?
Would you choose to no make the movie or take poetic license and do it anyway?
Or that Singapore was lost because the guns fired the wrong way...There are so many WW2 myths that won't die....
that Italian soldiers, sailors, and airmen were incompetent cowards, that the French just curled up in little fetal balls when the Germans showed up, and that Polish Lancers charged German tanks with spears, .....
Myths become such because they strike some deep cultural chords, which is why they're so hard to get rid of.
Or that Singapore was lost because the guns fired the wrong way...
Another aviation myth - the Swordfish was obsolete biplane.
As far as I know, in 1941 no other nation had a torpedo bomber with airborne search radar.
How about "the Norden bombsite is so accurate, our bombardiers at 30,000ft can hit a pickle barrel with it.". Sort of runs along the lines of "accurate strategic day light bombing".
Cities were known to contain many pickle barrels.They could hit a pickle barrel from 30,000 ft, but only a pickle barrel. Cities were beyond the spec.
Cities were known to contain many pickle barrels.
Guessing the nearest one?How would it know which pickle barrel?
The poor bomb probably got all confused.
Any pickle barrel in a (fire)storm!How would it know which pickle barrel?
The poor bomb probably got all confused.