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To: gaijin
Here is a History Channel video, 'Long Odds.' It is from the series 'Dogfights.' The first segment is about 1 Dauntless fighting off many Zeros. The video shows what a Dauntless is capable of in the hands of a brilliant pilot.

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27 posted on 06/09/2019 9:19:04 PM PDT by Daaave ("When a man loses everything else, he still has the sea.")
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To: Daaave

I was fascinated that some of Torpedo 8 (VT8) flew as part of the Cactus air squadron at Guadalcanal. History is truely harder to believe than fiction.


29 posted on 06/09/2019 9:44:26 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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