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Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:16 pm
by BaitBoy
Recently declasified photo of a top-secret mission durring WWII!
http://www.strategypage.com/humor/artic ... 066111.asp
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:22 pm
by Terminus
Damn...
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:25 pm
by barnacle bob
When do we get our top and side?
Does that mean the Japanese gets TIE fighters?
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:26 pm
by Halsey
Feel the Force, Luke!!![:D]
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:36 pm
by Onime No Kyo
Well, the KB doesnt equate to Deathstar for nothing you know. [8|]
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:52 pm
by GaryChildress
X-wing? I like the picture of the girl in the defeat Hillary shirt. [&o]
Must vote republican...must vote republican....
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:40 pm
by Don Bowen
Here is the "undoctored" photograph. The plane is an F2A from VMF-211.
Following loss of much of the squadron at Wake, VMF-211 was re-equipped with F2As and eventually sent to Palmyra for air defense. This photograph was taken off Palmyra in July, 1942 and is probably from the transfer of VMF-211.
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:43 pm
by Onime No Kyo
Under what circumstances did that plane crash, if you know? I was under the impression that USMC units were not carrier qualified until late 44.
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:45 pm
by Terminus
Most likely the squadron was transported there on the Long Island. Maybe that particular aircraft had tried to return to ship because of some emergency...
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:03 pm
by niceguy2005
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
I was under the impression that USMC units were not carrier qualified until late 44.
Clearly the pilot wasn't qualified. He obviously tried landing in the X-wing configuration, clearly that is not SOP. [:-]
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:08 pm
by Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: niceguy2005
Clearly the pilot wasn't qualified. He obviously tried landing in the X-wing configuration, clearly that is not SOP. [:-]
I am looking forward to the day they put in a forehead slapping emoticon.
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:10 pm
by Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Most likely the squadron was transported there on the Long Island. Maybe that particular aircraft had tried to return to ship because of some emergency...
By the looks of the prop, I would guess the landing gear collapsed. Wonder what else went wrong. Either way, this qualifies as a bad day at work.
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:11 pm
by niceguy2005
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
I am looking forward to the day they put in a forehead slapping emoticon.
and a yummy one. for now this is the closest we have.
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:13 pm
by Terminus
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Most likely the squadron was transported there on the Long Island. Maybe that particular aircraft had tried to return to ship because of some emergency...
By the looks of the prop, I would guess the landing gear collapsed. Wonder what else went wrong. Either way, this qualifies as a bad day at work.
Yep. I still remember the footage of an F6F landing on a carrier, and the fuselage snapping in half right behind the cockpit... Now that's a bad day!
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:14 pm
by Apollo11
Hi all,
ORIGINAL: Don Bowen
Here is the "undoctored" photograph. The plane is an F2A from VMF-211.
I am afraid to ask how you knew and found the original (i.e. "undoctored") picure so fast... scarry... [:D]
Leo "Apollo11"
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:23 pm
by Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Yep. I still remember the footage of an F6F landing on a carrier, and the fuselage
snapping in half right behind the cockpit... Now that's a bad day!
IIRC that guy survived, right?
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:57 pm
by dtravel
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: niceguy2005
Clearly the pilot wasn't qualified. He obviously tried landing in the X-wing configuration, clearly that is not SOP. [:-]
I am looking forward to the day they put in a forehead slapping emoticon.
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:02 pm
by Onime No Kyo
Whoa! Where did you find that dt?
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:05 pm
by dtravel
I've recently begun "collecting" smilies from various boards and I have a couple of smilie sites bookmarked. They're really not hard to find with Google/Yahoo/Ask/Random Search Engine.
RE: Recently declasified!!
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:06 pm
by Nikademus
ORIGINAL: Don Bowen
Here is the "undoctored" photograph. The plane is an F2A from VMF-211.
Following loss of much of the squadron at Wake, VMF-211 was re-equipped with F2As and eventually sent to Palmyra for air defense. This photograph was taken off Palmyra in July, 1942 and is probably from the transfer of VMF-211.
Don't listen to Don. He's an MIB.
Next he'll hit you with the normalizer. (You didn't see no Alien spacecraft....it was a weather baloon....oh and your next WitP turn is waiting in your mailbox)
[:D]