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purple said:
I recently saw the nicely preserved F4U in the Pima Air Museum. They also have an A-7 Corsair II on outside display. The USAF certainly profited from adopting both the A-7 and the F-4, both Navy designs. In contrast the troubled F-35 was designed by a committee which will wind up satisfying no one it seems. :rolleyes:
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A-4 Skyhawks,A-6 Intruders, A-7 Corsairs and F-4 Phantoms hold a special place in my brothers heart. He was a Aviation machinist mate on CV-67 the Big John.
 
shredder said:
Quite a few Fireflies in there - looks like they seriously outnumber the standard Shermans.
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That's a victory parade at war's end. By then Fireflies were coming on strength. The bigger question is how many hours did it take the crews to clean up all those war-weary Shermans for a white glove inspection parade. Oh, and if there is any doubt about why so much 'spare track' it had nothing to do with spare; it had everything to do with extra armour protection.
 
Sherman only had a couple of inches on the glacis, which is right where it was needed most. An 88 could punch a hole through triple that.... and keep on going.

I did my tank training not long after the Cuban Missile thing. Believe me, sitting in a tank that was obsolete before World War Two and thinking about what a T-55 carried, you felt that you might as well be NAKED.

Fortunately, our instructors were all WW-2 combat veterans; they taught us Terrain, Concealment, Gunnery and all the other Good Things. Firefly was the best of the Shermans but by the time we got them, they were older than most of us. Problem was that we were expected to be able to USE them, should the geniuses in Ottawa screw up.

Some of us are STILL waiting for the Chieftains we were told were coming.....
 
For all the "old WWII aircraft" aficionados like DAD I just watched a movie I had PVRed sometime in the winter and thought you guys would enjoy it...some of the best formation flying video I've ever seen of the " just before the war" variety of planes.

Movie is a rendition of the trials the Navy dive bomber fliers had trying to overcome blacking out from high G forces that culminated in the flight suits the fast movers still use today...
 
My uncle was a RCEME tank fitter who worked at recovering and repairing KO'd Shermans all the way from Normandy to the end in Holland. As long as a tank doesn't burn many components are salvageable and can be cannibalized to keep others going. He used to talk about swapping a "good" turret from a "bad" hull etc.

His worst experiences were when he had to enter a KO'd tank to remove residual human remains, blood, etc. They would scrub and wash them out and re-paint the interiors, but the smell persisted. He was pretty upset when I told him that I was going into the Armoured Corps and was happy to learn that I'd switched out of it at a later date.
 
fingers284 said:
For all the "old WWII aircraft" aficionados like DAD I just watched a movie I had PVRed sometime in the winter and thought you guys would enjoy it...some of the best formation flying video I've ever seen of the " just before the war" variety of planes.

Movie is a rendition of the trials the Navy dive bomber fliers had trying to overcome blacking out from high G forces that culminated in the flight suits the fast movers still use today...
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Sounds right up my alley, mate - thanks for the tip. :)

What's the title?

Dan
 
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Irish Republican Army volunteers train with a Lewis light machine gun during IRA manoeuvers in the Wicklow Mountains, Irish Civil War, 1922.
 
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