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11-06-2009, 10:40 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009
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| elgin clock Good day warbird fans. I recently acquired an old E37500 clock it is running as I type. the one hand that is for 24 hours is lying inside it. My father was a gunnery mechanic(what he told me) on Iwo Jima in WW2. He said he synched guns to fire thru the blades on fighter planes. Is this clock one used on P-51s or Douglas Dauntless? Figgered some one in here would know. Love to find pics of some of those outfits believe he was in the 44th |
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11-06-2009, 02:25 PM
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| aka Dickcheese   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| The P-51 did not have guns which fired through the propeller arc. He was a mechanic on Iwo? Most all of our USAAC fighter planes held their guns in wing bays outside of the arc. Exceptions were P-39s, but to the best of my knowledge these were not stationed near Iwo at this time of the war. I can't speak for the Dauntless. She did have two .30 cal machine guns that mounted above the engine cowl. Was your father Marine or Navy?
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11-06-2009, 03:38 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Welcome to the forum pieman!
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11-06-2009, 06:49 PM
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| He was in the army aircorp. |
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11-07-2009, 06:53 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| G'day mate. Welcome! 
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11-07-2009, 11:21 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | A picture of the clock might help. I have a Waltham 8 day clock out of an F4U Corsair and am always on the lookout for more aircraft clocks.
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11-07-2009, 11:07 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| {crickets}
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11-08-2009, 01:14 AM
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11-08-2009, 01:48 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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11-16-2009, 09:34 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009
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| he has been gone along time be tough to ask him Lol the clock I have for sale is on ebay with pictures albeit they are not real good on back it says contract no E-37500 ser no 000791 |
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