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    Japanese Type 93 Torpedo, was often a problem ships firing them

    For additional information on Japanese torpedoes, go here, to the USN Technical Mission to Japan:...
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 30, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    What if Empire of Japan sent their combined fleet to Europe

    I don’ play the “what if” games, they usually require too much of a suspension of rationality for my blood - usually ending up with one side running...
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 29, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    So this is what scout planes looks like in WWII

    A quick tutorial . . . The airplanes in this photo are SB2Us, probably SB2U-2s, maybe SB2U-1s, but definitely not SB2U-3s. In USN aircraft...
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 28, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    So this is what scout planes looks like in WWII

    I love an adventure!
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 28, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    So this is what scout planes looks like in WWII

    AH HA!! Mystery solved. I knew if I searched enough manuals I could come up with it. Those devices are, indeed, attached to the under-wing ordnance...
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 27, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    Is this really a spy plane?

    P-3 Orion, a USN ASW patrol plane, mostly, but when you cram in enough electronics and operators it works really good at sniffing the other guy's...
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 25, 2012 in forum: Weapons, Technology & Equipment
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    So this is what scout planes looks like in WWII

    Landing gear retracts up into the underside of the wing. Like the F4U and the F6F, the assembly rotates the wheels 9o degrees so that they lay flat.
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 20, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    So this is what scout planes looks like in WWII

    Not sure what that is. I see it from many angles in lots of SB2U photos. It appears to be a small streamlined attachment to the outboard ordnance...
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 20, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    So this is what scout planes looks like in WWII

    SB2U's from VS-41 with USS Ranger (CV-4) in background. One of the classic early-war Atlantic Fleet NavAir shots. Another good find!
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 17, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    Douglas SBD Dauntless Photos

    Very nice Peter. VMSB-241 SBDs over Midway, sometime after the battle, but before the insignia switched.
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 16, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    Bombing Auschwitz?

    This is a specious no win proposition. Here's all these poor souls being worked to death, literally, or out-right murdered and disposed of,...
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 15, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    How did Corsairs compete with Zeros?

    Yup, boiled down to "speed is life."
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 14, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    How did Corsairs compete with Zeros?

    At higher speeds the A6M's much vaunted maneuver superiority went away. Think about how fast an F4U could go . . . the short answer to how the F4U...
    Post by: R Leonard, Jul 12, 2012 in forum: World War 2
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    Has the real story of Pearl Harbor & our initial defeats in Pacific War, been tol

    Hey Geoff Long time like wise. Funny-bunny thinks I follow him around. Evidently does not occur to him that someone with a WW2 interest might...
    Post by: R Leonard, Dec 12, 2009 in forum: World War 2
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    Has the real story of Pearl Harbor & our initial defeats in Pacific War, been tol

    How many times, in how many forums, and in how many personas are you going to ask this question? You really think no one notices?
    Post by: R Leonard, Dec 11, 2009 in forum: World War 2
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