cammerjeff
Staff Sergeant
And your feet are dry!
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MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
'Walk" also means "Run Screaming Away"
And while the airframe and engine as well as all the seats are almost certainly Class 26, I'll bet the radios are all in excellent condition.
I heard where one of our carriers got hit by a Kamikaze and after that the only radios they had working on the ship for some days thereafter were those in a Wildcat had had its wing blown off.
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
The repair crews will fix this in no time.
Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
Looks like my workbench. I'll get it finished, uh, soon.
Warspite63
Senior Airman
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- Dec 8, 2022
Anyone think that the battleship fo'c'sle in the lower-left looks suspiciously RN?........
cammerjeff
Staff Sergeant
I think it is one of the older BB's either BB-32 USS Wyoming (but probably not BB-32 considering her service in WWII) BB-33 USS Arkansas, BB-34 USS New York, or BB-35 USS Texas.
Warspite63
Senior Airman
- 450
- Dec 8, 2022
The RN 13.5" and 15" turrets have the distinctive range hoods across the rear of the turret top, plus the distinctive 'ribs' from side-to-side. The US 12" and 14" turrets had flat roofs: https://navsource.org/archives/01/033/013345u.jpg
I could be wrong though.......
Zippythehog
Senior Airman
- 740
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What sort of aircraft is in the V? Large barrel flexible guns in the front of the nacelles and pusher props, doesn't look familiar to me.
The tank chassises don't look right for WW2? At least the middle one looks like a Sheridan?
Warspite63
Senior Airman
- 450
- Dec 8, 2022
The planes in the 'V' are Devastators (please correct if wrong....). The middle tank chassis appears to be one of the Christie-based models, built in (very) small numbers before the war:
View: https://i.imgur.com/FaWuP68.png
Agree on tanks. Middle one is the 1936 T4, front early Stuart, rear M2 medium.
special ed
2nd Lieutenant
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- May 13, 2018
The one at the top is the famous Bell YFM-1, a world beater, which allowed Bell to give us the extra famous "unmensionable" fighter.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I was trying to figure out what that was. Too much going on in the foreground for my tired eyes.
Reluctant Poster
Tech Sergeant
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- Dec 6, 2006
The front of the turret appears to be curved. Arkansas has a flat front.
Zippythehog
Senior Airman
- 740
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The planes in the "V" itself are undoubtedly, Devastators. I meant the one between the "V"? In the mouth of the "V".
Worldbeater??!
special ed
2nd Lieutenant
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- May 13, 2018
Worldbeater - It's a joke, son, just a joke.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Zippythehog
Senior Airman
- 740
- Jan 7, 2017
I don't think I knew anything about this plane. Thanks!
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Neither did Bell.
