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Dream sheet--WWII
- Thread starter phrogdriver
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That "going out in a blaze of glory" thing can have a negative impact on your liberty plans, but LCDR Waldron's sacrifice of VT-8 allowed LCDR McClusky's dive bombers to savage the Kaga and Akage virtually unopposed. It was a key element in winning the Battle of Midway and marginalizing the Imperial Navy.
Although not quite as nice as growing old with the family, he did get a destroyer and an airfield named after him, a Navy Cross, and a place in Memorial Hall.
Cheers,
Oh, F4U's all the way. Sexiest airplane ever built...
Make that R4D. Dashes only used if there was a variant like R4D-1 or R4D-2.
*would push glasses up if I wore any*
I stand corrected (just an old A2F-2 (?) ECMO)
That would probably have been A2F-2Q
(Professional history nerd... I do it so you don't have to)
That would probably have been A2F-2Q
(Professional history nerd... I do it so you don't have to)
Of course! How could I forget that ever important Q
VF-19 was westward bound on USS Langley with the first squadron of F8Fs when the war ended.
I think the Hellcat and Corsair made their combat debuts the same month. By the time the Corsair was making itself felt in any numbers, the J's had lost their "best & brightest" fighter jocks, so any comparison would be tough, at best.
The Marines got them 'cause they needed a replacement ASAP for the Wildcat, and the Navy needed plenty of carrier suitable aircraft. The Corsair, while having superior performance stats to the Hellcat, proved herself to be singularly unsuitable for carrier operations for a variety of reasons -- that's why she's lower on my "dream sheet".
The "real stats":
Hellcats - flew 45% of all fighter sorties during the Pacific War ... achieved a kill ratio of 19:1, and produced > 300 Aces.
Corsair - flew 44% of all fighter sorties during the Pacific War (only 15% from carrier decks) ... achieved a kill ratio of 11.1, and produced < 35 (?) Aces.
Hellcats & Carriers all the way, Baby ...
That guy in the upper right kinda looks like Johnny Depp!
-ea6bflyr
The scary thing is that when that picture was taken, I bet none of those pilots was older than 25.
Soon to be replaced by the F5H-7Q . . . or would that be the F9B-3Q?That would probably have been A2F-2Q
(Professional history nerd... I do it so you don't have to)
than you might want to get in to one of these.... I think the Harpoon actually raided some of the Japanese held Aleutians as well as sink a butt-ton of U-boats in the Atlantic.
