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Old 10-10-2007, 08:43 AM   #71 (permalink)
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I'd completely forgotten about the 113 site. Silly really because there was a long discussion about a picture of a aircraft turret on another forum.

And Andy, what's the 8 Sqdn url?
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Old 10-10-2007, 08:56 AM   #72 (permalink)
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Sorry, Kyt, have edited my above post.
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Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM.
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Some nice footage of 618 Squadron:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ohMEZ-d3I
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Some nice footage of 618 Squadron:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ohMEZ-d3I
Hate the too low sequence! Ouch!
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(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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Old 11-10-2007, 01:16 AM   #75 (permalink)
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Yes, ouch, didn't look good for the crew, I hope by some miracle someone got out of that. One thing I noticed with the A-26 footage there is that the A-26, on the two runs shown, did not pull up immediately like the Mossies did. The first drop appeared to bounce higher than the aircraft and the second one...well... The Mossies pull up pretty much as soon as the bomb leaves the aircraft.

Am surprised the Americans were not too keen on it given their successes with skip bombing in the Pacific.
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Yes, ouch, didn't look good for the crew, I hope by some miracle someone got out of that. One thing I noticed with the A-26 footage there is that the A-26, on the two runs shown, did not pull up immediately like the Mossies did. The first drop appeared to bounce higher than the aircraft and the second one...well... The Mossies pull up pretty much as soon as the bomb leaves the aircraft.
They probably thought they knew better (as always )

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They still preferred the dive and torpedo bombers, to their cost. And by the time that Highball was ready, and 618 went to Oz, the Americans were not only loath to use British equipment and ideas, but even stopped 618 becoming operational.
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Miserable sods! How'd they do that?
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Someone up high thought that it may work?
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After 618 had finished training in Oz, a section moved to Manus Island. But because this was in the operational area of the US Navy they were never given the chance to carry out any ops.

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Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at that sort of professional jealousy either
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Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at that sort of professional jealousy either
They might have thought that it may have been too dangerous for them.
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(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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