Matt308
Glock Perfection
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World War II Plus 55
"Meanwhile, the Japanese are delayed by American attacks and the need to refuel, and can't launch an attack on Dutch Harbor until 3 p.m. Rear Adm. Kakuji Kakuta hurls 17 bombers and 15 fighters at the enemy. The planes hurtle in at 4 p.m. and attack the grounded liner Northwestern, driven up on the beach by a williwaw, her 16th grounding. Japanese bombs do heavy damage but the ship's crew floods the engine room to stop the fire. The grounded liner's engines provide heat, steam and power to Dutch Harbor. Japanese bombers rake Dutch Harbor's oil tanks and installations, demolishing one wing of the base hospital. Four big fuel tanks explode with a roar heard 40 miles away, incinerating 750,000 gallons of 100 octane. Only 18 men are killed, 25 injured, but the Japanese take no casualties.
However, en route back, eight American P-40 fighters attack the enemy. Both sides lose two aircraft. As the Zeroes rumble home, one, piloted by Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga, spots a PBY flying low in the water. He streaks down to finish off the seaplane and splashes the PBY. But the PBY's blister gunner, Aviation Machinist's Mate W.H. Rawls, helps turn the tide of World War II by putting a bullet through Koga's oil pressure line. Pressure goes down to zero. Convinced his engine will pack up, he turns his crippled plane to land on Akutan Island, putting out a voice distress message. Koga lands with his wheels down, a mistake on the boggy tundra. The wheels get caught in the tundra, flip the Zero on its back and break Koga's neck, killing the pilot.
The Zero lies undisturbed for a month when a US Navy PBY's crew spots it. A Navy team is sent to retrieve this prize. Koga's Zero is damaged, but mostly intact. American crews quickly ship the Zero back to the States, the first Zero captured intact by the Americans. In California the Zero is re-assembled and test-flown before a team of engineers from Grumman, which is designing a new fighter called the F6F Hellcat. Most of the design is nearly completed, and test models have been flown. But by studying the Zero and its principles, the Grumman team is able to make a few more changes to a design that is already capable of driving the Zero from the skies and giving the Allies supremacy in the air. After the war, a myth will develop that Koga's Zero enabled the Americans to change the Hellcat's design, which is not true.
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World War II Plus 55
"Meanwhile, the Japanese are delayed by American attacks and the need to refuel, and can't launch an attack on Dutch Harbor until 3 p.m. Rear Adm. Kakuji Kakuta hurls 17 bombers and 15 fighters at the enemy. The planes hurtle in at 4 p.m. and attack the grounded liner Northwestern, driven up on the beach by a williwaw, her 16th grounding. Japanese bombs do heavy damage but the ship's crew floods the engine room to stop the fire. The grounded liner's engines provide heat, steam and power to Dutch Harbor. Japanese bombers rake Dutch Harbor's oil tanks and installations, demolishing one wing of the base hospital. Four big fuel tanks explode with a roar heard 40 miles away, incinerating 750,000 gallons of 100 octane. Only 18 men are killed, 25 injured, but the Japanese take no casualties.
However, en route back, eight American P-40 fighters attack the enemy. Both sides lose two aircraft. As the Zeroes rumble home, one, piloted by Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga, spots a PBY flying low in the water. He streaks down to finish off the seaplane and splashes the PBY. But the PBY's blister gunner, Aviation Machinist's Mate W.H. Rawls, helps turn the tide of World War II by putting a bullet through Koga's oil pressure line. Pressure goes down to zero. Convinced his engine will pack up, he turns his crippled plane to land on Akutan Island, putting out a voice distress message. Koga lands with his wheels down, a mistake on the boggy tundra. The wheels get caught in the tundra, flip the Zero on its back and break Koga's neck, killing the pilot.
The Zero lies undisturbed for a month when a US Navy PBY's crew spots it. A Navy team is sent to retrieve this prize. Koga's Zero is damaged, but mostly intact. American crews quickly ship the Zero back to the States, the first Zero captured intact by the Americans. In California the Zero is re-assembled and test-flown before a team of engineers from Grumman, which is designing a new fighter called the F6F Hellcat. Most of the design is nearly completed, and test models have been flown. But by studying the Zero and its principles, the Grumman team is able to make a few more changes to a design that is already capable of driving the Zero from the skies and giving the Allies supremacy in the air. After the war, a myth will develop that Koga's Zero enabled the Americans to change the Hellcat's design, which is not true.
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