MIflyer
Captain
I'm thinking really big LEDs.
What's wrong with this picture?
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Yep, but you usually end up with headache.
"Did we give up when the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor?"
special ed
1st Lieutenant
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Not yet.
GrauGeist
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They didn't have LEDs back then, those were bigass Nixie Tubes...
MIflyer
Captain
They did not have Nixie tubes back then, either. Probably 100 watt light bulbs. The recent Atom Bomb movie that featured a radio with the Nixie tubes sitting atop it got that wrong. By the way, I have had that same model of radio, a BC-348, with a Nixie tube display sitting atop it in my living room for several years now. Don't know how the movie people stole the idea. At least the BC-348 was sort of right; they were used in heavy bombers and transports in WW2.
GrauGeist
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Actually, the Nixie tube technology and rights were purchased in the 1950's by Burroughs Corp. from Haydu Laboratories, who invented and patented the digital display tube in the 1930's.
They did exist before and during WWII, the Haydu brothers simply didn't have the ability to mass produce them.
They did exist before and during WWII, the Haydu brothers simply didn't have the ability to mass produce them.
Barrett
Staff Sergeant
WTF? 
GrauGeist
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The only American bombers Hauptman Johnen claimed were three B-25s...
This like today watching Black Sheep Squadron today. The last episode of the series. There is a Grumman Duck that takes off from Vella Cava (real island name of 214's base in the show was Vella Lavella). Any it doesn't have and markings. But by the time it gets to a island to get their downed pilot it has the Star with the red meat ball and says US NAVY on the side. No doubt Micklin hung out and painted marking on both sides of the fuselage.
GrauGeist
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The J2F-6 used in that TV show was owned by Frank Tallman and also appeared in several other shows and Movies (like Murphy's War).
I believe that by the last episodes of Black Sheep Squadron (1978), the Duck was being readied for a movie production.
A bit of trivia: that J2F served in the Pacific during WWII, even serving aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13).
I believe that by the last episodes of Black Sheep Squadron (1978), the Duck was being readied for a movie production.
A bit of trivia: that J2F served in the Pacific during WWII, even serving aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13).
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