Hey, you just can't trust cruiser captains with those long range weapons! Know your backdrop before you shoot. The high angle gunnery mindset can bite you in the butt.
At least they weren't Mark 48s!
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Hey, you just can't trust cruiser captains with those long range weapons! Know your backdrop before you shoot. The high angle gunnery mindset can bite you in the butt.Okay, not strictly an aviation myth but I recently read that the HIJMS Mogami had the most successful torpedo attack in history sinking five ships with one spread. Unfortunately for Mogami, those ships were on her side.
I was thinking about your post. Was he in Burma in the early days of that campaign? Was he there when the troops had to eat the mules? That had to be a brutal posting.CBI stands for China Burma India. He was a master Sgt. in the veterinary corps, they used a lot of mules in Burma.
No, I never heard about that. His outfit trained for years in the States and finally deployed to Burma in mid 1944.I was thinking about your post. Was he in Burma in the early days of that campaign? Was he there when the troops had to eat the mules? That had to be a brutal posting.
was it false or true?Not sure if it is the greatest myth busted but one of my favorites...
The Germans called the P-38 the Fork Tailed Devil.
was this false or true?The Me-262 was not produced because Hitler wanted a bomber.
The SBDs sank the IJN carriers at Midway because their escorting Wildcats dove on the Zeros and shot them down before they could stop the dive bombers.
The Germans almost certainly did not call the P-38 the "Fork-tailed Devil." Similarly, the Japanese almost certainly did not call the F4U Corsair "The Whistling Death."w
was it false or true?
ohThe Germans almost certainly did not call the P-38 the "Fork-tailed Devil." Similarly, the Japanese almost certainly did not call the F4U Corsair "The Whistling Death."
i looked it up and I already saw this guy had no idea what he was talking aboutThe Germans almost certainly did not call the P-38 the "Fork-tailed Devil." Similarly, the Japanese almost certainly did not call the F4U Corsair "The Whistling Death."
Would you call out gable schwanz teufel over a radio or just "lightning"?
lightning but idkWould you call out gable schwanz teufel over a radio or just "lightning"?
The writer also states that the Corsair had a Turbo-Supercharger, a fact not widely known...i looked it up and I already saw this guy had no idea what he was talking about
lightning but idk
i looked it up and I already saw this guy had no idea what he was talking about
lamo sensationalist writerThe statement that the F4U "could out-run, out-climb and out-fight any propeller driven opponent" also rings a little boastfully.
The Corsair was an outstanding fighter, but had its own limitations and weaknesses. To suggest that it could achieve all three of those claims, against ANY opposition is pure hyperbole