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To: txroadkill
"I don't believe that any US fighter pilots ever even saw main land Japan unless they were POW's."
 
HooBoy, that's a real humdinger!
 
http://media.putfile.com/P-51-MUSTANGS-OVER-MAINLAND-JAPAN-1945  (courtesy of yours truly)
 
 
 
 

185 posted on 05/20/2006 10:54:00 PM PDT by wolficatZ (Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle -"You'll hang for this!")
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To: wolficatZ
Yeah, that was a pretty dumb comment...I was stuck on LaMay and sending the B-52 in low, unarmed and just enough fuel to see the airbase that they were trying to get to before crashing into the ocean. Main Land Japan was a target rich environment for the P-51.
196 posted on 05/20/2006 11:08:06 PM PDT by txroadkill
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