Odds and Ends

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

I was going to ask about that

What were you going to ask?

[Hard Sarge]

if you had a Lanc with the Shark mouths

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

if you had a Lanc with the Shark mouths

Yes I do [:D][;)]

I'm getting ready for the game's release [:D] So far I've got 5 Lancs.

[K.Pooley]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

133 Squadron, was lost on a mission, they spotted a city coming up on the coast, and didn't want to look sloppy to there English friends, tighten up there formation, and put on a fine fly pass, only it was Brest, kind of slow, and low, and the flak ripped them apart, think one plane made it to England to crashland, the rest, were either killed outright or taken POW, a whole squadron gone

There's an account of 133 Squadron's last mission at http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/eagles/eagle1.htm

Kev

[Hard Sarge]

yea, I have seen that, and got to say, it is a cock (the rest of the site is pretty good though

that is not the story that the POW's told when they returned, or that the LW broadcasted

(remembering, that for Propaganga reasons, it would be much better to be broadcasting about what fools these guys were, we didn't even have to fight them, they just flew over here and crashed, we train our pilots in how to read a compass and fuel gages, the English are hurting so badly for pilots, they are not even training them)

[K.Pooley]

'Eagles of the RAF' By Philip D. Caine gives another account, even quoting the 133 Squadron history:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gUlT ... t&resnum=2

It also goes on to give a fairly detailed post-mortem on the disaster.

Kev

[Hard Sarge]

I have that book, along with a few others

it matches with in reason, what I said, they thought they were over England, when they came down out of the clouds, seen the city and closed ranks, didn't want to look sloppy to the home folk

[Aurelian]

A Ju-87B-1 of Stab II/St. G 77, during the invasion of Poland, was painted with a shark's mouth, and some Bf-110s were decorated with furious wolf's heads or shark mouths on engine covers.

[Hard Sarge]

right, the shark mouth on the 110 looked good, they also had the Wasp head/body

which may not sound too swift, but they look good

[tblersch]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

you know, those stories are HARD to believe, but they happened too often, to all be lies

how many times did enemies join the wrong formation of planes, thinking they were friends, how many times did a LW plane land in England, or a English plane land in France

Had the pleasure, a few years back, of hearing Gunther Rall talk about, among other things, his introduction to the La-5 over Kursk. He saw it at a distance and wanted to get good look at the new radial-engined Focke-Wulf fighter he'd heard about but hadn't yet seen...by the time he noticed the stars, he was close enough to ram...