To: fso301
IIRC, the Philippines still had P-26 Peashooters on the flight line - and some of them went up to fight!
By December 1941, U.S. fighter strength in the Philippines included 28 P-26s, 12 of them operational with the 6th Pursuit Squadron of the Philippine Army Air Corps. Filipino-flown P-26s claimed one G3M and two or three Mitsubishi A6M2 Zeros before the last of them were burnt by their crews on December 24, 1941.
37 posted on
12/20/2011 1:50:13 PM PST by
Little Ray
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To: Little Ray; Homer_J_Simpson
IIRC, the Philippines still had P-26 Peashooters on the flight line - and some of them went up to fight! That is correct and they gave a good account for themselves. BTW, the Philippine bomber force consisted of three B-10's.
38 posted on
12/20/2011 2:32:20 PM PST by
fso301
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