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05-31-2004, 03:58 AM
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Country:  | 'The Mighty 8th' I have that game, somewhere. I never played it much, I don't know why, I loved the original. I read that in a B-17 book my brother has...maybe I should dig the game up and get playing. 
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05-31-2004, 04:00 AM
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Country: | 'The Mighty 8th' I heard it on there. I also read something along those lines in a book my brother has about B-17s. That's a great game.
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05-31-2004, 07:12 AM
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Country:  | the programme was good  a lot of the information was incorrect, but the actual point of the programme was very good.
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05-31-2004, 10:42 AM
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| I've been impressed with the game. Although I think people get wounded far too often. I know the daylight bombing raids were extremely dangerous but I don't think I've ever flown a mission that I did have at least 3 people get injured.
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05-31-2004, 01:41 PM
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#260 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | C.C., can you give some of this "incorrect" information..................
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05-31-2004, 05:42 PM
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Country:  | I read an artical about the Hurricane being dug up. It sounded interesting, but I live in the states so not able to see the program.
LG, thanks for reminding me that the P-38 was the Fighter in the med. I had read it but as most things I read promptly forget while looking for other information. Would it had made a difference if the 8th could have had the P-38s that were redirected for TORCH?
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05-31-2004, 11:25 PM
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| Probably. When the Lightnings were finally used in the escort role bomber losses did drop dramatically. Their own losses were rather high (poor tactics, lousy weather, and mechanical difficulties) but the bombers were getting through and that's the point of an escort fighter anyway. The problem with that possibility is that the North African campaign would have had a much tougher go of it without the P-38s.
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06-01-2004, 07:14 AM
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Country: | Without getting too far into the game; your men do get injured too much and mine even get injured over England. It's like they trip over some ammo something.
Or maybe one is whittling his wood to the shape of a B-17 and cuts his finger (You'd get that if you've seen Memphis Belle).
Has anyone seen that Captain Corelli's Mandolin? It's pretty good, it's about the Italians occupation of this Greek island...it's funny, and good with a few historical inaccuracies that I liked pointing out...
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06-01-2004, 07:17 AM
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Country: | nope, i was watching that fighter plane dig does captain corellis mandolin have any P.108's in it?
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06-01-2004, 07:18 AM
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Country: | nope, i was watching that fighter plane dig does captain corellis mandolin have any P.108's in it?
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06-01-2004, 08:13 AM
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Country: | No. The only plane I believe you see in it is the Ju-87.
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06-01-2004, 01:58 PM
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#268 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | is it flying??................
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06-01-2004, 03:19 PM
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Country: | or is it a wheezy little model thats extremely manoeverable, like the stukas in battle of britain
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06-02-2004, 03:29 PM
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Country: | they're funny they are..............
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