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So the 200 hours was primary 60, basic 70 and advanced 70 which were all in dedicated training aircraft. Then an extra 40 hours in a combat type plane. Good to know, thanks.
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So the 200 hours was primary 60, basic 70 and advanced 70 which were all in dedicated training aircraft. Then an extra 40 hours in a combat type plane. Good to know, thanks.
Not necessarily, names are important. At the end of the link is the section "transition training" which is said to take two months. I saw a WW2 era graphic about training which definitely included the number 200 hours in USA or UK.So the 200 hours was primary 60, basic 70 and advanced 70 which were all in dedicated training aircraft. Then an extra 40 hours in a combat type plane. Good to know, thanks.
For Japan, attacking DEI and british colonies simply leaving behind and in the middle of the sea lanes the USA possesions was not an option, especially given the american reaction to the more or less bloodless invasion of Vichy French Indochina (been both Japan and Vichy France Nazi Germany sympathizers it could had been regarded a kind of internal fascist block affair)I said should not have attacked the us. So they did not do what i advised.
The inter-service rivalry didn't dictate where airfields were constructed, the availability of existing airfields did.They didn't because they couldn't. Interservice rivalry was only part of the problem. Saburo Sakai marveled at the huge American invasion fleet at Guadalcanal. The US hadn't even got its act together yet.
My point exactly.The inter-service rivalry didn't dictate where airfields were constructed, the availability of existing airfields did.
The Japanese (both Army and Navy) were woefully lacking in the ability to support their advances. So new airfields hacked out of the jungle was a burden on their logistics. On many occasions, it was up to the pilots and scant crew to build their own quarters.
The Japanese logistics and supply chain was deplorable and the rivalry between the two services hobbled their ability to wage war - example, the IJN had a relatively well equipped maintenance center on Rabaul. However, the nearby IJA base at Lae on New Guinea had to send their aircraft all the way to Manila for even routine maintenance - a trip of 1,500 miles one way - instead of the 345 miles to Rabaul.
But my point was that the Japanese did not have enough area saturation (regardless of service) for the area under their control.My point exactly.
Well that is a movable feast, some people trained by the RAF and other nations could already fly before they joined, while others may have been great in most areas but have problems that needed to be overcome. I remember reading Bob Doe never liked flying inverted and thought he would be "washed out" because of it, he wasnt and became an ace. Choosing a force from those who have the wealth to own a plane isnt really a great idea. From what Ive read, assuming all who progress onto "transition training" in a frontline combat plane it the training in that plane that matters, 50 hours want enough to keep you alive if thrown into areas of high combat activity while over 200 hours you had learned almost all that training can give you.Flying time or flying time on type?
During the BoB it was said RAF pilots had very little flying time but this was in the a/c they would fly in combat.
Japanese dozer. Kikki's Workshop [ The Museum of CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT ]Komatsu Bulldozer G40(1943)Wasn't there a movie made about the Seabees on Guadalcanal? Fighting Seabees or something like that? The Americans were the ones with bulldozers.
The Fighting Seabees 1944 with John Wayne:Wasn't there a movie made about the Seabees on Guadalcanal? Fighting Seabees or something like that? The Americans were the ones with bulldozers.
The only fighter aircraft to be operated from the very beginning to the very end of the European theatre was the Bf 109 (by 2 days).
Both Eisenhower and Halsey are supposed to have included the Bulldozer in lists of weapons or equipment that won the war.
The Fighting Seabees 1944 with John Wayne:
And all those miles of runways, taxiways and dispersal points didnt build themselves.On display on the shoreline at Arromanches-les-Bains, Normandy. The dozer teams used to go out and remove the big rocks from the sand at low tide, which goes out for some distance, making it easier to mount the Mulberry Harbors.
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