To: Timber Rattler; colorado tanker; Homer_J_Simpson
Vraciu was a true ace. RIP.
2 posted on
02/10/2015 9:13:31 AM PST by
henkster
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: Timber Rattler
Still, he downed the dive bombers firing only 360 of the 2,400 bullets in his arsenal.
One of the annoying things about the online flight simulators I used to fly was how many rounds had to hit an enemy to shoot them down. Especially with those lousy planes with the 7.62 ammo. and only 2 guns.
e.g.
Polikarpov I-16
3 posted on
02/10/2015 9:18:39 AM PST by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: Timber Rattler
Still, he downed the dive bombers firing only 360 of the 2,400 bullets in his arsenal.I admit I don't know much about air to air combat, but I have to say, this guy was a crack pilot and a crack shot.
FMCDH(BITS)
4 posted on
02/10/2015 9:26:04 AM PST by
nothingnew
(Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
To: Timber Rattler
5 posted on
02/10/2015 9:26:11 AM PST by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
To: Timber Rattler
I guess he was the top Ace for a period of time? Lots of guys got more than 19.
Our pilots pale in comparison to German Luftwaffe aces who scored hundreds of kills. The max being 352. Of course the Luftwaffe didn’t rotate their pilots out.
To: Timber Rattler
Holy crap! through the eiffel tower!
7 posted on
02/10/2015 9:28:57 AM PST by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: Timber Rattler
Lt. (jg) Alexander Vraciu in his Grumman F6F Hellcat after the "Mission Beyond Darkness" during the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 20, 1944)
Not many long shots of him but we got 19 confirms on #19 in this close up
Maybe it's the photograph, but that thing looks like your favorite hot rod, looks like shit but goes like hell .. ride
8 posted on
02/10/2015 9:29:12 AM PST by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
To: Timber Rattler
Ummm someone overlooked Richard Bong - highest scoring air ace?
11 posted on
02/10/2015 9:36:07 AM PST by
corkoman
To: Timber Rattler
13 posted on
02/10/2015 9:40:13 AM PST by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: Timber Rattler; henkster; Homer_J_Simpson
Mr. Vraciu entered combat in 1943 as part of Fighting Squadron 6, serving as wingman for Lt. Cmdr. Butch O’Hare, the Navy’s first combat pilot ace and its first aviator to receive the Medal of Honor in World War II.He fought a long war.
To: Timber Rattler
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