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[MiTasol]

And not one looks like they are Kermit Frogs descendents.

 

[Greg Boeser]

And not one looks like they are Kermit Frogs descendents.

Nobody saved pictures of the ugly ones.

 

[SaparotRob]

Yep and the aircraft the AVG were reporting could not actually exist because the Japanese were backward myopic copycats so therefore could not possibly have a fighter that could down the P-40.

I was actually hoping someone would've wrote something to the effect of: "Obviously the IJN could perform underway refueling" or "then how did they manage to strike Pearl Harbor?" My intended response would've been:
SURPRISE!

 

[Viking1066]

Second prototype FK-58 the net

 

[Viking1066]

Wartime air traffic control trainees practice on model aircraft before working with the real thing the net

 

[Viking1066]

WASP pilots assigned to Camp Davis North Carolina front of a Beechcraft AT-11 the net

 

[CATCH 22]

I think they all do!!

I agree. I already mentioned in another post that those girls (our grandmas' and sometimes great-grandmas' generation) look muuuuuuuuuch better than their counterparts today. But, as always, some of them are truly exceptional!.

 

[CATCH 22]

Wartime air traffic control trainees practice on model aircraft before working with the real thing the net
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I see B-25s and P-38s there! Amazing! They pretty much look like 1:48-ish scale.