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11-05-2005, 11:25 AM
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11-05-2005, 12:12 PM
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#62 | | the old Sage
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Country:  | The Med. US night fighter units used the Beau with some success as well as night and day ground attack and anti-shipping ops ......... | |
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11-06-2005, 02:54 AM
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#63 | | Master of Ewes
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Did the beaufighters ever get escorted because I have never heard any acounts of an escorted beaufighter mission
| yes they normally did, were, by other beaufighters  or perhaps mossies because on their longer range missions spits and suchlike didn't have the renge needed, it was normal to send out some torp armed beaus (which after dropping their torps and to a cirtain extent with the torps, they could look after themselves) escorted by rocket or bomb carrying beaus, so even the "escorts" were sent out to attack...........
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11-06-2005, 04:39 AM
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11-06-2005, 06:08 AM
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Country: | Yes, in Europe P-51s were often used to escort Mosquitos and Beaufighters. The high cruise speed of the Mustang didn't take away the speed of the Mosquito, but I honestly think the reason for an escort was to draw up the Luftwaffe to send it back to earth in flames. Normally the Mosquito would just go out and the Luftwaffe couldn't catch it, that was the whole point! So, I reckon the escorted missions were for drawing up German interceptors.
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11-07-2005, 09:55 AM
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| on the point of mosquitoes being escorted.occasionally typhoons did the mossie cover.
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11-07-2005, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by jrk on the point of mosquitoes being escorted.occasionally typhoons did the mossie cover. | P-38 occasionaly escorted Mossies too, not to mention Mustangs covering F-5s on occasion.
I'm sure they just used whats handy.
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11-07-2005, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by wmaxt Quote: |
Originally Posted by jrk on the point of mosquitoes being escorted.occasionally typhoons did the mossie cover. | P-38 occasionaly escorted Mossies too, not to mention Mustangs covering F-5s on occasion.
I'm sure they just used whats handy.
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what? mustangs covered tigers 
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11-08-2005, 06:19 AM
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Country: | F-5 was the USAAF designation for their photo-recce Mossies
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11-08-2005, 06:32 AM
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Country: | No, the F-5 was the P-38 photoreconnaissance airplane. The Mosquito was the F-8 in USAAF service.
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11-08-2005, 07:07 AM
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Country: | There is a book currently in Print on the Bristol Beaufghter by Jerry Scutts, and the ISBN Number is 1861266669, I have read this book and it is very informative.
I also posted some info about it in various previous threads.
They didn't used the wings of the Beaufort, they used all the fuselage sections aft of the wings, which also included the tailplane.
If you go to Amazon UK website, search by ISBN Number, just below the picture of the cover, there is a link which asks if you like to search inside this book, and if you click on the link you can read the book.
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11-11-2005, 01:39 AM
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11-11-2005, 12:05 PM
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