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04-24-2006, 12:05 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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| Never heard of anyone scoring 5 in a Boomerang.....
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04-24-2006, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Wildcat Well I can't tell you much, but apart from the many men that fought in Europe, The RNZAF also saw action at Singapore and Malaya, The Solomons and Bougainville that I know of. The RNZAF shot down a total of 103 Japanese aircraft in the Pacific. Some aircraft the RNZAF was equipped with include P-40's, Corsairs, Avengers, Ventura's, Dauntless's, Hudson's and PBY's (That's off the top of my head, I'm sure there are others). | Cool beans.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group 
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01-10-2007, 01:21 PM
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#33 | | Junior Member
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Major Greg Boyington - USMC - F4U Corsair - 24
22 were credited by the USMC and 2 by the AVG with the Flying Tigers.
Some records dispute the numbers and Boyington felt he had 5.75 victories with the AVG.
With the AVG he and 4 other pilots destroyed 15 aircraft in a raid. The AVG split it among the 6 pilots in the flight (2 provided top cover during the raid) and that reduced the number to 2.5 victories per pilot. Then he had 2 air-to-air victories bringing his total to 5.75 rounded up to 6...thus some records claim 28 victories.
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01-10-2007, 01:28 PM
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#34 | | Der Crewchief
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__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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01-11-2007, 10:12 AM
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01-13-2007, 08:13 AM
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Country:  | Another correction: No, it was Ján Režňák from 13.(Slowakei) Staffel/JG52 (flying Bf 109G-4), credited with 32 (15x LaGG-3, 5x I-16, 3x I-153, 2x MiG-1, 2x MiG-3, 2x DB-3, 1x Pe-2, 1x Jak-1, 1x Jak-3) confirmed and 5 (1x I-16, 1x LaGG-3, 1x Jak-1, ???, ???) unconfirmed airborne kills.    
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01-14-2007, 11:25 AM
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| There are MANY reasons why the Russians loved the P-39s.
1) They refused to be drawn to high altitude where the P-39 was at a disadvantage. They fought at or below 10,000 feet and ignored the huigh-flying Luftwaffe. If they noticed the German planes, they attacked the german bases at low altitude to stop the raids. Very few planes were as good as the P-39 at low altitide.
2) They were much more interested in reliability, and the Allison was more reliable than the Merlin, and so WOULD have been better liked by the Soviet forces.
3) They replaced the bad armament with good Soviet cannon designs as stated above.
4) They flew mostly in support of ground units. So, there was a lot of friendly flak when needed. Tough to do that in the Pacific theater since there simply isn't much in the way of ground in the ocean. In Europe, we were flying over German-held terrotory while attacking, so all the flak was unfriendly.
5) The P-39, while unliked by the Western Allies, was superior in technology to most Soviet aircraft and was heartily adopted by them. They concentrated in developing tactics which it could use to advantage while we simply proclaimed it to be unsuited to our requirements. Of course, the real culprit was the U.S. Military procurement people who deleted the Supercharger from the aircraft. | |
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01-17-2007, 07:02 PM
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What about Otto Kittel from JG 54....more than 200 kills with the FW-190A. 
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01-17-2007, 07:12 PM
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#39 | | the old Sage
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~ Lomma mentioned him just with a sentance and his kill score on the first page
hey, what no night fighter pilots ? .......... this must be a day thing again  | |
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01-17-2007, 09:10 PM
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And yes that could be 121 kills for the Bf-110s, in Schnauffer case.
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