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05-30-2004, 01:55 PM
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Country:  | What's this? We had a Geography project about Italy but that was the current situation, and there was no acting or anything.
We had a decent project in History though, when I was in year 8. We split the class into American, British, French and German governments. And each one had a prime minister or president, and it was the Treaty of Versailles. I was the German prime minister, and I had to argue things off the Treaty, like their restrictions.
That was fun, but completely off topic, so I'll stop.
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05-31-2004, 12:18 PM
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#122 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | i'm trying to come up with a best fighter topic we haven't covered already................
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05-31-2004, 12:20 PM
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Country:  | what about fiat G.50 vs Breda 65?
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05-31-2004, 12:33 PM
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#124 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | no i mean like "what was the best escort fighter?" or something like that, i tend not to focus on just two aircraft.........................
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05-31-2004, 10:16 PM
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| Probably only two contendors there, the P-51 and the P-38. Three guesses where I stand . . .
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06-01-2004, 04:55 AM
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Country: | P-47 did a good job escorting as far as it could go, and weren't the P-47Ns just damn good...
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06-01-2004, 09:14 AM
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| P-47N was only ever used in the Pacific though. And the P-47s going as far as they could wasn't very far.
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06-01-2004, 11:29 AM
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Country: | Things still need escorting in the Pacific, and the P-47N had a ferry range of 2350 miles. Not that bad...
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06-01-2004, 12:31 PM
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#129 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | one question, could the P-38 make it all the way to berlin??
because i always thought the only one to make it all the way was the P-51 with jugs................
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06-01-2004, 12:34 PM
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| The P-38 was more than capable of making it to Berlin. As a matter of fact P-38s were the first Allied fighters to fly over Berlin. As another matter of fact, P-38s in the Pacific flew combat missions of 2,300 miles or the ferry range of a P-47N.
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06-01-2004, 12:37 PM
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#131 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | but wasn't it suiside fighting in a P-38 with the tanks on??
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06-01-2004, 12:39 PM
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| It was suicide fighting in anything with tanks on. The J and L Lightnings carried as much as 424 gallons of internal fuel (typical external load was 330 gallons) so they had plenty of fuel to make it back on.
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06-01-2004, 12:40 PM
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Country: | Again the P-38 is twin engined a great increase in range. The P-47N was still a great fighter, as it was escort with 1000 miles combat radius it still proved a huge worth to the forces there.
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06-01-2004, 12:42 PM
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#134 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | i better be getting E-cards from you guys on thursday...............
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06-01-2004, 02:41 PM
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Country: | you doing anything for you birthday lanc? if not, we'll take you bowling 
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