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To: Blood of Tyrants

8 posted on 03/25/2010 8:35:17 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

That’s not a SB2C Helldiver. Looks to be an F8F Hellcat with a radar dome under the right wing.


13 posted on 03/25/2010 8:49:57 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
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To: JoeProBono

I will never forget the day we on the USS Intrepid lost a plane and pilot during dive bombing practice. It was in the middle fifties and the AD squadron was going after a spar towed behind the ship.

Standard procedure had the pilots coming in from high altitude, one by one, and bombing the spar before pulling out in a full-G manuever. In pulling out, the doomed pilot probably passed out before looping into the ocean and sinking.

May he still ... rest in peace.


32 posted on 03/26/2010 3:30:19 PM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years.)
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