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-Maybe it's just me but I saw this photo, simply captioned as a P-38 Lightning but I think there might be more to the story. Yes, no, maybe??

 

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• May 12, 2024

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That is the P-38 known as the swordfish mod, to test Laminar flow wing profiles, but I always suspected they tested more than that with this A/C

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2000539853/

 

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cammerjeff said:

That is the P-38 known as the swordfish mod, to test Laminar flow wing profiles, but I always suspected they tested more than that with this A/C

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2000539853/

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Wow! I get nosebleeds standing on my tippy toes.

 

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"I was just flying along minding my own business when this pasture jumped up and hit me."

I think this is Switzerland?

 

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MIflyer said:

"I was just flying along minding my own business when this pasture jumped up and hit me."

I think this is Switzerland?

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Bf 109E-1 (W.Nr. 3367) 'Red 14' of 2./JG52, which crash-landed in a wheatfield at Mays Farm, Selmeston, near Lewes in Sussex, 12 August 1940. Its pilot, Unteroffizier Leo Zaunbrecher, was captured.





the source: II. Gruppe Jagdgeschwader 52 - II./JG52

 

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Notice that the wing guns are missing. No doubt the local children pilfered them to set up a private AAA site.

I did read a letter that said a couple of kids stole a Browning from a bomber wreck and then a belt of ammo from a fighter crash and tried shooting at a 109 that flew over.

 

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No, it's the "E-1" variant, which had 7.92mm machine guns in the wings, not the protruding barrels of 20mm cannon associated with the "E-3" and "E-4" variants.

 

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No, it's the "E-1" variant, which had 7.92mm machine guns in the wings, not the protruding barrels of 20mm cannon associated with the "E-3" and "E-4" variants.

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What I find interesting, is that the holes in the fuselage don't look like they are from 0.303 guns, they look a lot like 20mm holes.

 

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Captain Roger Donlon surveys the damage to the Special Forces camp at Nam Dong, attacked on the 6th of July by a battalion size of Viet Cong.
Wounded four times during the attack, Donlon became the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in Vietnam....

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A Marine H-34 makes a one-wheel landing atop the 3rd Marine Division outpost known as the "Rockpile", four miles south the DMZ. The surveillance post gives a clear view of enemy infiltration routes into the South....

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Wurger said:

Bf 109E-1 (W.Nr. 3367) 'Red 14' of 2./JG52, which crash-landed in a wheatfield at Mays Farm, Selmeston, near Lewes in Sussex, 12 August 1940. Its pilot, Unteroffizier Leo Zaunbrecher, was captured.

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12.08.1940 2./JG 52 Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 Wnr.3367 Uffz. Zaunbrecher Location: Mays Farm, Selmeston, Sussex, England. +

 

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I like how they put the wings on the wrong side and backwards when they put it on display for the public

 

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