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Happy Doolittle Raid Day, America

Started by CountDeMoney, April 18, 2011, 05:02:42 AM

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MadBurgerMaker

Quote from: Valmy on April 18, 2011, 09:11:27 AM
No since I find the celebration of battles to be bad taste.

Quiet, you.  The Battle of Flowers holiday is the best.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Valmy on April 18, 2011, 08:34:40 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 18, 2011, 05:43:09 AM
No, not a holiday.

Fortunately we do not celebrate battles which I think is in bad taste.

Fuck you, you America hater.

Ed Anger

Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 11:25:19 AM
Those Mitchells were pretty versatile.

I liked the ones with the 75mm cannon in the nose.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

KRonn

Quote from: Ed Anger on April 18, 2011, 06:03:34 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 11:25:19 AM
Those Mitchells were pretty versatile.

I liked the ones with the 75mm cannon in the nose.
The flight and ground crews did a lot of experimenting with adding weapons. Some had multiple .50 caliber machine guns fitted into the airplane's nose, for a more devastating strafing attack.

Razgovory

Quote from: Ed Anger on April 18, 2011, 06:03:34 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 11:25:19 AM
Those Mitchells were pretty versatile.

I liked the ones with the 75mm cannon in the nose.

Should have added those laterally like in Vietnam.  There wasn't enough German planes to intercept them, they could just blow the shit out of Wehrmacht at their leisure.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ed Anger

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Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 08:59:22 PM
they could just blow the shit out of Wehrmacht at their leisure.

They did that anyway. All those Slargoses being chased down and strafed by Thunderbolts gives me a murder boner.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Eddie Teach

We should make the anniversary of Manzikert a worldwide holiday.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

grumbler

Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 08:59:22 PM
Should have added those laterally like in Vietnam.  There wasn't enough German planes to intercept them, they could just blow the shit out of Wehrmacht at their leisure.
The 75mm in the Puffs were useful for more for illumination starshell than HE.  The HE rounds just weren't accurate enough to hit anything even if they could be aimed.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!