RAAF Beaufighters causing a bad day!

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RAAF Beaufighters causing a bad day!

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Bad news.

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Now if only they could that in-game...  [;)]
 
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Mine do...

They are my favorite low level attack aircraft.

Wait till you see them in action in AE.[;)][:D]
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I think that picture is from the ETO though.  The Beau on the right looks like it has invasion stripes.

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ORIGINAL: wdolson

I think that picture is from the ETO though.  The Beau on the right looks like it has invasion stripes.

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I thought that as well, but I got it from that site I posted earlier (Nice Pics), and it is in an article ref the plane in the PTO..I had to look at the pic at an angle to discern those are not the stripes, but call letters, apparently.
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I'm not so sure. Didn't the Australian Mk 21 have upward dihedral on the horizontal stabilisers ? If so then that definitely makes them Australian Beaus because the one on the right has the upward dihedral.
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ORIGINAL: moonraker

I'm not so sure. Didn't the Australian Mk 21 have upward dihedral on the horizontal stabilisers ? If so then that definitely makes them Australian Beaus because the one on the right has the upward dihedral.

All Beaufighters did from midway through the MkVI production run.
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Think they might be RAAF Beaufighters of No. 455 Squadron attacking an armed trawler escorting a convoy in the North Sea in September 1944.

Here is another picture of the same or similar action.


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This A-20 was a bit over zealous. .
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This particular A-20 ended up in a water with gunner dead and pilot picked up next day...

With anything that starts "over-" you can get someone killed easily ...

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Here is a B-25 that got caught by an exploding bomb dropped by a proceeding aircraft.

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