braindead

Designers and builders - Saab J-21 and Saab 92

Finally something in my league.....

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RustyBattleship

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What do these two vehicles have in common?
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I like the looks of the airplane better than I do of the car.

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braindead

Simple one since I was caught flaps down
The last aerial combat in ETO , participants, types of their aircraft, result ?

GAU-8

braindead

24 hours up. I´m offline for another 24hrs. so open question

dave lukins

Sorry...could'nt find anything on the last one..G'Damn

braindead

´The Fieseler Storch was the last dogfight victim of the western front. Pilot Duanes Francies and his observer, Lieutenant William Martin, of the 5th US Army Division, spotted a Storch circling below them while looking for ground targets in their Piper Cub. Diving on the Storch, the two men opened fire with their Colt .45s and the plane spiraled to the ground. After a short gun battle, Francies and his observer took the two Germans into custody. Lt. Martin was awarded the Air Medal for his part in the fight, but Francies would have to wait until the story was reported in Cornelius Ryan's book "The Last Battle," to finally be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The USAF was 22 years late. Apart from being the last Luftwaffe plane lost in the west, this Storch was also the only enemy plane downed by pistol fire during the war. ´
Warbird Alley: Fieseler Storch .
Date was AFAIR 8th of May , 1945

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GAU-8

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Originally Posted by GAU-8 World War II, Pacific theater of operations, 21 March, 1943: American aircraft tangled with Imperial Japanese aircraft. When the dust settled, it came to light that fratricide (friendly fire) had occurred between the American and Japanese aircraft. What happened? How could that happen?

ANSWER:

Sam TAGAYA translated the pertinent information from, "A-AH, HAYABUSA SENTOTAI" (A-ah, Hayabusa Fighter Unit) by Yasuhiko KUROE (Posthumously), Kojinsha Tokyo:1969, pp 246-248:

"During the Spring 1943 Air Offensive in Burma, on March 21, 1943, a mission was flown against Feni Airfield by 21 heavy bombers (Sally II) and 15 fighters (Oscar II), the planes returning at night. The heavy bomber formation which headed toward Rangoon were fired upon by friendly anti-aircraft batteries around Rangoon, since the ground air defenses had not been properly alerted to the approach of the returning bombers which had changed the air base to which they were going to land.

'Not only that, but from Mingaladon Airfield, a unit of our forces equipped with captured P-40s took off to intercept. In the darkened sky, a tragic exchange of friendly fire took place. By the time they realized what had happened, some of the heavy bombers had force-landed after being hit by the friendly fire.'"

That this event actually occurred is officially recorded in other Japanese official records. Sam continues;

"Boeicho Kokan Senshi gives more concrete details:

"The fighters which attacked IWAHASHI's formation were from a unit equipped with captured P-40s formed for the aerial defense of Rangoon."

Until recently, there was no knowledge of the unit to which this flight of impressed P-40s was attached. Researcher and author Edward ("Ted") YOUNG ("Air Commando Fighters of World War II," Specialty Press:2000) made the following revelation;

"Some years ago I found a reference to captured P-40s in the Royal Air Force records at the Public Records Office in London. File Air 40/2172 had a translation of a captured diary of a mechanic assigned to the 12th Sentai. The diary recorded the following entry for March 11, 1943, when the mechanic was at Alor Star in Malaya:

'At noon a formation of 3 P-40s flew over and landed. They are being moved by air as part of a new chutai [shotai ?] which is being formed to take part in the Burma operations. The 50th Hikosentai mark was on them.'

I assume he was referring to the 50th Sentai's 'lightning bolt.' Sadly no comment on colors, or where the P-40s came from."

The supreme irony of the foregoing is that at least six hapless Sallys of the No.12 Hiko Sentai should have fallen victim to Hawks over Rangoon on two separate occasions. AND, that the second time they came under Warhawk fire, the bullets were fired by Japanese pilots flying captured Allied fighters!

Sam TAGAYA wryly concludes, "It seems Curtiss's products continued to shoot down Japanese bombers no matter who was flying them!"
-Jim Lansdale

dave lukins

Now then if you had put it a bit closer to the Indian Ocean I would have got it in a flash Not!.. I spent hours searching for any info but to no avail. Even Glyn didn't have a clue on it.

GAU-8

dave lukins

Thank you Sir.

What No CONCORDE resides in Seattle?

Knaur Amarsh

Registration: G-BOAG
Serial No.: 214

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dave lukins

Correct...your go