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MXY-7 Ohka (Cherry Blossom) = David Ashe
Breda ba.88= entire 2014 teasip offense

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I'd say Ash= the TBD Devastator. Proven to be fragile on previous occasions but sent in and obliterated.

poor dude.

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Man thats just mean to say about Ash

And Case McCoy = the 1940 British Fairy Battles. The Brits had some crazy ideas good and bad. This one was their worst. Sorry Case you did your best.

Does that mean VY= P-51?

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MXY-7 Ohka (Cherry Blossom) = David Ashe
Breda ba.88= entire 2014 teasip offense

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I'd say Ash= the TBD Devastator. Proven to be fragile on previous occasions but sent in and obliterated.

poor dude.

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Man thats just mean to say about Ash

And Case McCoy = the 1940 British Fairy Battles. The Brits had some crazy ideas good and bad. This one was their worst. Sorry Case you did your best.

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I think it's apt. I genuinely feel bad for him with the way Strong made him go for it on 4th down and got him hurt.

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Does that mean VY= P-51?

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IMHO, VY = F4U Corsair. Or perhaps the Grumman F8F Bearcat

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And Case McCoy = the 1940 British Fairy Battles.

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That's Fairey Battles. Please do not neglect the "e" ...

This thread needs some more pictures.

The Chance-Vought F-4U Corsair with its distinctive gull wings.


How about some of the products of the Grumman Iron Works?
The F4F Wildcat

The F6F Hellcat, which was designed to defeat the Jap Zero and did just that in record numbers


An American Volunteer P-40B "Flying Tiger"


Now some foreign warbirds ...
Hawker Hurricane (RAF)


Supermarine Spitfire (RAF)


Hawker Typhoon (RAF)


Messerschmitt Bf109 (Luftwaffe)


****e Wulf FW190 (Luftwaffe)


Messerschmitt Me 262 (Luftwaffe)


Mitsubishi A6M, otherwise known as the Zero (Japan)



And how about some nods to the original thread here ...
The P-47 Thunderbolt, often called a Jug ...


The P-51 Mustang, the Cadillac of the Skies ... (note the P-40 in the background)

No one mentions the KI-84 Gale. It was faster than both the 51 and 47 and could reach B-29 altitudes.

But the Gale (Hayate) arrived too late to make any difference. It was not faster at high altitude, the fuel available was of lessor quality than what we pumped into our aircraft, and then one has to consider the skill of the typical Japanese pilot late in the war when the Hayates were operational.

The Japs did produce some quality aircraft but these seem to have been in the too little too late arena.

So did the 262 but everyone fawns all over it. The Dora model of the Fw 190 was also very advanced but again arrived too late to do any good

Thanks to Jeff and Cinco Ranch for the mention and picture of the Corsair. Guess I'd have to pick that one given my mother, who at the age of 18, worked the second shift at the Vought plant in Stratford,
Connecticut.

I loved hearing her story about how the women would place notes with their name/address in the cockpit...in hopes a pilot would find it and write back. Unfortunately, many of those notes were found and removed during the final inspection by QA. That said, one day a woman came to work all excited
with a letter...it was from a pilot who'd found a note and written back.

Great story!

Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2


P-51 and A-10




P-51 and F-15E

I served with the 355 FW and 48 FW. Both flew P-47s and P-51s back in the day. Thought you would enjoy this collage of 355 Fighter Group Aces from WW2.

The fourth picture down in the link is the plane my dad flew in WW!!. The "Miss D".

http://www.warwingsart.com/12thAirForce/65thplanes4.html

My dad's Mustang in 1944
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My dad's Mustang, found in a school yard in Israel in 1974 and later restored by Robert Lamplough in Duxford, England.
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My apologies for the use of photobucket......