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12-30-2004, 02:10 PM
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#16 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | so you agree with my theory erich??
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12-30-2004, 04:33 PM
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#17 | | the old Sage
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Country:  | read my above posting. yes the Dora were suppose to provide high cover to the ehavier equipped A-8's and A-9's but it never seemed to work out just the right way; the P-51's would overwhlem the Luftwaffe defence | |
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12-30-2004, 07:20 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Adolf Galland i think that the the way 2 stop the allied bombers is that there should be heavy fighter unites that act as the hurricanes in the battle of britian because of their poor performance but powerful fire power and have something like the 109 to escort the heavy fighter and deal w/ the p-51s or fighter escorts |
The Hurricane didn't have poor performance, it was the hero of the BoB, the Spitfire was the posterchild!
The Spitfire was truly better, but there wasn't enough of them - the Hurricane was usually assigned to purely bomber hunting when Spits were there to cover them, or else they had a twin role of fighter and bomber interceptor! | |
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12-30-2004, 08:24 PM
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#19 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | Correct me if Im wrong, but didnt the Spitfire account for almost as many planes downed as the Hurricane????
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12-30-2004, 09:22 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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| Try 1/3 of the Hurricane's kills...
Something like that, anyway. | |
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12-30-2004, 09:31 PM
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#21 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | I think it was more than a 1/3...
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12-31-2004, 07:14 AM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I don't think it was much more than half the kills. The Hurricane hunted the bombers, the Spitfires the fighters. The Hurricane was the savior in BoB. There were also 32 Sqd. of Hurricane and 11 Sqd. of Spitfire. Of course the Hurri was going to shoot down more.
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12-31-2004, 08:33 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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| im gunna say no , because it wasn't very manouverable , though it was faster than the 109 , but im still going to say no ...
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12-31-2004, 10:34 AM
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#24 | | Minister of Whoopass
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im gunna say no , because it wasn't very manouverable
| Are u saying the Fw-190 wasnt manouverable???? God I hope not...
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12-31-2004, 10:53 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus Quote: |
im gunna say no , because it wasn't very manouverable
| Are u saying the Fw-190 wasnt manouverable???? God I hope not... | well less so than the 109 anyway
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12-31-2004, 11:00 AM
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#26 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | I dont think anyone but urself would say that an Me-109 was more manouverable than an Fw-190, except maybe the armoured Fw-190A8/R3....
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12-31-2004, 11:44 AM
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| well im only 14 so what would i know 
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12-31-2004, 11:51 AM
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#28 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | Atleast u can admit it....
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12-31-2004, 02:46 PM
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#29 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | what?? that he's 14???
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12-31-2004, 03:41 PM
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#30 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | That he doent know everything....
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