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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
I don't know how they even got airborne with ****s that size.

2 posted on 04/18/2025 8:07:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

RE: the Doolittle raids, if the sea had been calm, they couldn’t have launched. A calm sea means no wind, and even with the Hornet at flank speed, the B-25s couldn’t get up enough airspeed to get airborne in time. So the Hornet had to be steaming into a pretty healthy wind — which means choppy seas — to get off in that distance.


9 posted on 04/19/2025 11:37:21 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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