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To: rw4site

I never knew that any of the active Tuskeegee fighter groups were equipped with P-38’s. That alone would have had me checking this guy’s story.


7 posted on 05/11/2012 4:43:14 PM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: Tallguy

I also knew that the best plane they flew was the P-51 Mustang.

“The Tuskegee Airmen initially were equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawks fighter-bomber aircraft, briefly with Bell P-39 Airacobras (March 1944), later with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts (June–July 1944), and finally with the aircraft with which they became most commonly associated, the North American P-51 Mustang (July 1944).”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen


10 posted on 05/11/2012 4:49:38 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Tallguy

They flew P-339s, P40s, P47s, and P51C and P51Ds. The only major USAAF pursuit craft they DIDNT fly was the P38 Lightning.


17 posted on 05/11/2012 6:58:46 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: Tallguy; EGPWS

I think the picture of the P-38 was posted as a metaphor for something that crashed, i.e. the guy’s story.


21 posted on 05/12/2012 3:00:36 AM PDT by Former War Criminal (Who am I? Why am I here?)
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