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magic452
11-25-12, 02:49 AM
My brother- in-law sent me this link, thought you might enjoy.
Lots of pics.

Magic
Betonov
11-25-12, 03:13 AM
Link ??

:D
Cybermat47
11-25-12, 03:58 AM
Is your brother-in-law still sending it?
TarJak
11-25-12, 04:34 AM
What are you guys talking about.The secret link works fine for me. :03:
troopie
11-25-12, 05:07 AM
^Yes, that's right. You just have to click the first line of post #6. :03:

Cool pics btw Magic:salute:
Hottentot
11-25-12, 05:54 AM
^Yes, that's right. You just have to click the first line of post #6. :03:

Cool pics btw Magic:salute:

Yes! This line here! (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=200039)

I agree, very cool pics!
Jimbuna
11-25-12, 06:23 AM
What are you guys talking about.The secret link works fine for me. :03:

LOL :)
Rockstar
11-25-12, 08:30 AM
Oh now I get it :har: . That was a good one I'll have to remember that.
magic452
11-26-12, 01:39 AM
OOPS :o:o:o don't know what happened other than I forgot to put in the link. Last thing I did before logging off. :oops::oops::oops::oops:

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=14428&finish=15&start=0

Magic
Cybermat47
11-26-12, 03:00 AM
Nice! :yeah::up: and an inverted :down:
troopie
11-26-12, 03:56 AM
Wow, worth the wait. Cheers Magic.

Love the B-17 named 'Boomerang'! :03:
troopie
11-26-12, 04:45 AM
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos%20Two/avengerdamgdi0.jpg

Ive just done a net search and discovered it ditched safely near the US fleet, but only the pilot Bob King was aboard. The other two crew members had bailed out after a midair collision with a 2nd Avenger took off part of the wing (flown by Bob Cosbie which spun into the sea killing all aboard) during a strike on Chichi Jima.

Source: 'Flyboys' by James Bradley (Little, Brown: Boston, 2003) pgs. 291-301-
Jesse Naul was flying a 3rd Avenger and said- "I was behind Cosbie's plane. Suddenly, antiaircraft fire shot Cosbie's right wing off.
His plane went into a clockwise spin, It slammed into King's plane and the propeller hit King's left wing and chewed off four feet of it.
King's plane then went into a spin."
King thought they would crash, so he told his crew to bail out. Jimmy and Grady bailed out (and were captured and killed by the Japs)
King had his seat belt off, fixing to bail out, and to his surprise, he got the plane straight, he kept flying, nursing his damaged Avenger back to his carrier (USS Bennington). He was accompanied by other planes from the squadron.
All who saw the torpedo bomber still airborne with most of its left wing missing were amazed.
"We told him his landing gear wouldn't work, that he shouldn't even try," Naul said. "We told him he'd have to make a water landing."
King ditched his plane near the fleet."
After his bad jolt, King spent the night in sick bay, but he was alive. He was also a changed man.
"King was the most heartbroken man I ever saw in my life," Sengewalt told Bradley. "He lost two men and lived. He didn't say much. I think he never really recovered from that flight, he was so moved. We knew what he went through; no one blamed him. What he did was almost miraculous."


Very sobering.
Stealhead
11-26-12, 02:49 PM
They called it Grumman Iron Works for a reason.Study air frames.
danasan
11-26-12, 03:50 PM
This is impressive:

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/mitchkx9.jpg
Jimbuna
11-26-12, 04:06 PM
WOW....explanation please :o
Sailor Steve
11-26-12, 04:08 PM
That's General Billy Mitchell dropping a phosphorous bomb on USS Alabama, a preliminary to the sinking of SMS Ostfriesland, starting the tests that proved to an unbelieving US military that airplanes could indeed sink ships.
http://www.aerofiles.com/ostfriesland.html

And a lot of fun:
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675070747_United-States-battle-fleet_airplanes-bomb_explosion_battleship-sinks_World-War-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYzisqaKzjU
Jimbuna
11-26-12, 04:10 PM
Cheers Steve...saved old buna searching for an answer/explanation :sunny:
Rockstar
11-27-12, 07:42 AM
That's General Billy Mitchell dropping a phosphorous bomb on USS Alabama, a preliminary to the sinking of SMS Ostfriesland, starting the tests that proved to an unbelieving US military that airplanes could indeed sink ships.
http://www.aerofiles.com/ostfriesland.html

And a lot of fun:
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675070747_United-States-battle-fleet_airplanes-bomb_explosion_battleship-sinks_World-War-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYzisqaKzjU


Yep, happened right off of Tangier Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay. One can still see some steel poking out above the water at low tide.