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Barnes Wallis started the ball rolling on heavy, accurate & deep penetrating bombs with his rather successful 12,000 lb.Tallboy design. His Grand Slam version at 22,000 lbs was very effective on the heavy built targets it was made for.

 
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French Documentary on Portuguese war in Guinea 1964.
In the field, Warning, shows causalities and dead.
French commentary with Portuguese text.

BTW: Ultramar mean "Overseas"

 
70 years ago this past Wednesday, on 23 June 1951, a rather famous ramp strike by an F9F-5 Panther aboard USS Midway, while being flown by two-time WWII ace George Duncan.


Amazingly, he survived without significant injury.

The footage of the crash went on to be used in several movies.
 
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The most versatile plane of WWII.


Nothin' like the music of Merlins.
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Thank you for that. I discovered a short time ago that a neighbor of mine was a Mosquito pilot in the war ( found out days after he had a debilitating stroke so was to late to listen to his story). Vern was probably the most "non confrontational" man I ever knew and his demeanor just doesn't transfer to someone spending years flying a war machine. Those Mosquito's must have had a "roomy" cockpit or Vern could suffer long flights in a cramped space, although skinny as a bean pole, he was 6 ft 3 or so tall.
 
This one talks about the U.S. considering building Mosquito's under license.
Any why they never did.
Although not mentioned, one must wonder if money or maybe just 'words' didn't exchange hands before the report by Gen Hap Arnold was given back to the US.
In the lines of "Lets keep this American"

 
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