Which theater of War Would you choose for flying?

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i don't know, it didn't say, it's pretty amazing that only one man made it out though..................

 

[Lightning Guy]

Well, there weren't as many people in England willing to help Germans escape as there were in France trying to help the Allied pilots escape.

 

[ev0]

Ev0, nice to have you on. now why would you like the aircraft?

What did you mean? "like the aircraft?" I assume that you wonder why I would like those aircrafts? Because the p-47 for example had a big circulation of jobs and it could take biiig amounts of damage.


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Oh crap, my english sucks!

 

[plan_D]

He probably stole a fishing boat or something. He might have got over to Ireland and got picked up in the Republic somewhere and taken home.

 

[Lightning Guy]

I would thinking getting over to Ireland would have been even tougher. Maybe a U-Boat could have made it over there to get him, but how would he contact it? The fishing boat across the channel seems like a better option to me. It wouldn't have been easy, but probably the most likely means of escape.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

he proberly stood a better chance of servival staying england, anything could have happened on the crossing..............

 

[MP-Willow]

But he got out! But still ony one of how meny pilot that were lost in that campain. I think the war would have been a lot different if the German pilots would have been able to get back to their units.

EvO- I just wated to know why you liked the aircraft you named.

 

[Lightning Guy]

Getting alot of pilots who had been shot down back into action was a major advantage for the RAF. Just look at the indestructible Alan Deere.

 

[ev0]

ok ^^ Too bad that the p-47 did not have 4/6 20 mm cannons :/

 

[Lightning Guy]

The P-47 did very well with it's 8 .50cals. That was more than enough fire power for air-to-air and with as many as 3 500lb bombs and 10 HVARs it really didn't need the cannon for ground attack.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

8x.50cals were fine for ground attack as LG said, they could take out and soft top, and even tanks by shooting at the ground so the bullets would bounce off the ground and up into the bottom of a tank, but the tiffy also made good use of 4x20mm.....................

 

[plan_D]

That's thing 12.7mm at a high rate of fire had a good chance of destroying just about any German, Soviet or Allied tank. The only ones capable of withstanding the pounding would be the Big Cats.

 

[Lightning Guy]

And they wouldn't be able to stand up to 500lb bombs or 127mm rockets. Basically the P-47 was armed to take out whatever it might encounter on the battlefield.

 

[ev0]

ofcourse. It did very well with the 8*.50 but it would have been better with 20 mm's i think :I

 

[MP-Willow]

just replace the two inermost guns with 20mm cannon. The trick is the amount of shells to carry and that would be the problum. So LG -I would have to back of my cannon wish as I would need about 50 to 100rounds for good Air to Air and unless I have a high velosity cannon the rate of fire is slower, as I understand and well not good fore speedy fighters.

AS for bouncing rounds off the ground that is not that simple

 

[Lightning Guy]

Typically, the 20mm cannons being used by the Allies had a rate of fire of about 10 rounds per sec. That 50-100 rounds is thus good for 5 to 10 secs of fire. In comparision, the 425rpg that the P-47 was designed to take was equivalent to 34 secs of firing time.

 

[plan_D]

The bouncing rounds off the ground was mostly by luck. It wasn't a skill, you fire at the tank and some will hit the ground below and maybe ricochet off. Lucky deflection but it's your kill, if you're willing to go against a Panther firing a 12.7mm MG back up at you, you deserve the praise.

Especially in 1944 when they had the Wirbelwind that beautifully crafter Quad-20mm Mobile AA Gun.

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

But the Mg34 and Mg42's were 7.62... Did the Germans use any 12.7mm mg's? Or are you just wrong? (It's ok if you are) They did, however, have 15mm and 13mm mg's but these were for aircraft, and occasionally they were modded and placed on a turret for airfield defense. Who manned the guns? Hilterjugend! I've seen a pic with 4 (!) of these guns set up as AA.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

any chance you can post it??

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

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