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05-21-2005, 01:01 PM
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  | Mohawk .IV - Hawk-75A-4 Has anyone got any information on the Mohawk .IV served with the RAF? Information and pictures of RAF Mohawk IVs only, please. No I - IIIs! Ideally those over the CBI. Thank you in advance.
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05-24-2005, 01:56 PM
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| Mohawk IV were used by squadrons no. 5 and 155 (only a brief time by 146 in 1942 and converted to Buffalo and Hurricane) No 5 converted to Hurricane II in june 1943 and later to Thunderbolt. No 155 to Spitfire VIII in jan. 1944 All of them operated in CBI in various roles: patrols, air defense, bomber escort, ground attack, recce. Max |
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05-24-2005, 07:47 PM
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| What about the Specs. because I'm getting mixed reports of either 4 or 6 .303.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. |
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05-25-2005, 04:46 AM
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| It's OK, I've found all the info I need. It had 6 .303's , two in the nose, four in the wings. Here are some pics.
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05-25-2005, 12:41 PM
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| I think it's a good reference http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p36.html |
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05-26-2005, 03:24 AM
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| What an excellent aircraft, better high and low speed characteristics than the Spitfire Mk.I. Better take-off and climb characteristics. I think speed is quite vital though and if it's slow at picking up speed from a dive as well, it won't be very good from above. It'd be more capable of evading destruction, rather than destroying. Unless of course someone gets into a turn fight with it. Perfect for fighting IJAAF Oskars and IJN Zeros!
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. |
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05-26-2005, 06:40 AM
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Such a waste of a potentially good aircraft.
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05-26-2005, 06:46 AM
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| It just need a more powerful engine and I think the Mohawk had the potential to be one of the best aircraft of war! I always thought it was dog until I read that. The speed would be a problem. That's why they took it away from Europe. You've got Bf-109s diving down on you at high speed, it's going to be hard for the Mohawk to hit anything. Putting in the CBI was a good decision...A6Ms weren't very fast and liked to turn... Still, the Hawks the FAF had didn't stand a chance when I come zooming in with my La-5! (On Il-2)
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. |
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05-26-2005, 07:03 AM
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| Did you also know that the Hawk-75 was the first US built aircraft to get a kill in both the European & Pacific theatres of war? You don't get that kind of info from most "historians", this aircraft was mostly ignored.
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05-26-2005, 08:11 AM
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| True, very little is said about it.
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