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Originally Posted by SnoopyAce7
my fav WWII plane. B-24 Liberator!
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My Grandfather on my dads side flew the B-24 during WWII. My dad got his fathers entire aircraft instruction and familiarization manuals...
My parents have promised them to me when it's time for them to be handed down...
I loved reading them as a teenager... There are a few silly cartoon characters in them to point out certain absolute do not do items... There are about 20 or so of the books in the set... and it is in total, about the size of a set of encyclopedias.
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Originally Posted by MisterCamaro69
P38 for me... or Beech cargo's... or staggerwing ....
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P-38 is my alltime favorite aircraft...
Edward Jablonski wrote the two book set called Airwar...
I used to read about Richard Ira Bong and Thomas McGuire in their chase for the ace records... Bong officially held it with 40 when he returned to the States and McGuire died a short time later in a plane crash against a Japanese instructor pilot with over 3000 hours in the type aircraft, and McGuires aircraft snap rolled into the ground just two kills behind Bong... Bong died soon after the War in a Jet incident as a test pilot. He was a Major with 40 victories and was only 24 when he died... I always thought he looked like a very very young Harry Morgan, Colonel Potter of Mash Fame...
The P-47 piloted by Neel Kirby was close behind them in the Pacific theater. I don't recall his official victory count but what amazed me about him was doing this in the P-47... With the huge radial engine and no radiator, it could take tremendous punishment, but it was very heavy and had a tendancy to not pull out of high speed dives... The control surfaces on the tail (ailerons I believe is the term) would actually flex and bend in the opposite direction the pilots were trying to command... leading to terminal flights... Kirby was able to take advantage of the Speed of the P-47 and fly around the inherent problems... and was incredibly successful... though even he wasn't the highest scoring ace in the '47...
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