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cammerjeff
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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
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Wow! I get nosebleeds standing on my tippy toes.
Good shots!
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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?
I think this is Switzerland?
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.
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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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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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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