Paradoxes (Things That Contradict Themselves) Of WWII

[cheddar cheese]

everyone else just used place names

ive never been to mosquito or sterling or gladiator or meteor for that matter.....

[the lancaster kicks ass]

there's lots of places you haven't been.......................

[bronzewhaler82]

I think theres a place in England called Sterling....

[plan_D]

There's Stirling, as in Stirling Bridge where William Wallace completely betrayed chivalry and slaughtered those innocent horses, smart move.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and we'll be able to go to meteors one day........................

[ahanswurst]

The Kawasaki NIK2-J Shinden-Kai George 21 could fly 370 mph and up to 35,300 feet It was probably the best fighter the Japanese had to bring down the B-29's . There were 480 Georges built and the Japanese did not have high octane aviation fuel. They uses a fuel extracted from pine tar and mixed that with their gasoline to get a 87 octane fuel. When WW2 ended they had some F4U Corsairs escort some Georges to another base . The Japanese pilot's airplanes were fueled with 100 octane fuel and they pulled away from the Corsairs. The Corsairs could fly 417 mph. So if the Japanese had 100 octane fuel available for their airplanes the B-29's would have been in serious trouble. As it was the Georges and Raidens accounted for more B-29's shot down that we have been told of.

[cheddar cheese]

I think theres a place in England called Sterling....

yes, i thought that as i was posting in that case then.... ive never been to welkin

[ahanswurst]

I was stationed at Yokota AB Japan in 1969 . One of my friends worked as an EOD (exposive ordinance Disposal) He told me that he had just came back from disarming the guns on a B-29 they found when a rice paddy was drained. He said the aircraft was 30 feet into the mud and when this news was leaked there were a whole bunch of High ranking Officers flew in to visit the crash site. I never saw any news items in the Stars and Stripes and none of the Japanese papers English editions. I often wonder why that B-29 attracted so much attention. The fact it had guns meant it had to have been one of the earlier B-29 missions beofre Lemay had ordered them removed. Anybody else know of a B-29 wreck recovered in Japan in 1969 ?

[bronzewhaler82]

Yeah i heard about that B-29...it had been shot down hadn't it?

[the lancaster kicks ass]

either that or the japs cursed it in some way....................

[Crazy]

There's Stirling, as in Stirling Bridge where William Wallace completely betrayed chivalry and slaughtered those innocent horses, smart move.

Do I sense sarcasm? Wallace did what he had to, and won, by god!

Of course, being mostly Scottish, I have a particular bias for him

[ahanswurst]

Yeah i heard about that B-29...it had been shot down hadn't it?

Bronzewhaler, We have a 56th WRS board available on Yahoo.com. The address is http://polaris.umuc.edu/~lwashbur/ If you have anything more about that B-29 crash in 1969 I would like more info about that. Anybody else interested in the RB-57F long wing should visit the site. I have lots of pictures of the RB-57F that I took while stationed there from 1968-1970

[the lancaster kicks ass]

sounds interesting........................

[bronzewhaler82]

Yeah i heard about that B-29...it had been shot down hadn't it?

Bronzewhaler, We have a 56th WRS board available on Yahoo.com. The address is http://polaris.umuc.edu/~lwashbur/ If you have anything more about that B-29 crash in 1969 I would like more info about that. Anybody else interested in the RB-57F long wing should visit the site. I have lots of pictures of the RB-57F that I took while stationed there from 1968-1970

Sorry old chap...I'm english and i was doing what we do best....being sarcastic, i know nothing about the crash BUT i would be interested if you find anything on it

[the lancaster kicks ass]

actually what we do best is que for things, we're the only culture in the world that que in a sivilised manor for things, that and bombers by the name of the "lancaster"