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04-29-2010, 01:28 AM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Glasscock got it. Some of the fighter squadrons would use a slicing type of tailhook to cut anddisrupt power and communications. Alot of times it would be done at night under good weather...
04-28-2010, 04:47 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

No,That truly would be air mail. It would be exciting though would'nt it
04-28-2010, 03:07 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Here is my question. Tail hooks stopped fighters on the decks of aircraft carriers but in a different form theyhad another completely different use for some land based WWII fighter squadrons....
04-27-2010, 06:48 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Captured by the Japanese in May, 1942 at Mindanao.P-40E of the 24th PG. Mechanics painted the nose at Maramag.
04-27-2010, 02:16 PM
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RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Alright P-40 you got it! It's your turn. 460th bomb group under the 55th bomber wing, 15th Air Force. My cousin Harry D. Scottwas KIAover Zwolfaxing, Austria July 26, 1944 flying with the 762nd...
04-27-2010, 01:50 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Okay the 12th Air Force split into. The split became known as the 15th Air Force. The 15th being mostly for the strategicbombing targets that the 8th Air Force could not reach such as the Ploesti...
04-26-2010, 11:54 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

You were on the right track the first time. That number was too high. They were based in Italyduring 1944. 15thAir Force
04-26-2010, 11:31 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

No but thats getting warmer, maybe a little too much. Another hintis thatthisinsignia serves as group and squadron insignia unlike most othergroupswhich hadindividual squadron insignia.
04-26-2010, 10:08 PM
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RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

This group served during WWII.The air forcethey flew under was the result of the split of the 12th Air Force.
04-26-2010, 12:35 PM
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RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Did I interrupt your Mary Kay party? Okay this group was in the ETO and with the U.S. Army Air Corps.
04-25-2010, 11:27 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

No that is not correct. They did have a nickname that would be a bonus if anybody gets that. I am looking for the specific numbersfor example91stbomb group 332nd squadron.
04-25-2010, 10:53 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

Thanks, That was a very good question and kept me busy for a while. I did not catch the R model designation. Ok here is my question.To what WWIIgroup/squadronsdid this patch belong to and which...
04-25-2010, 06:01 PM
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Posted By blackrapids

RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

He-112may have been the first fighter, there was a trainer also He-72
04-25-2010, 05:48 PM
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RE: Knowledge Quiz for Warbird wiz

You did not state manned or unmanned, does not neccessarily have to be manned to be a fighter, and what is "power" fuel, propellant, gasoline,etc. In other words is thisdefinitive or your...
04-25-2010, 03:28 PM
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