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ORIGINAL: mdiehl

[A fair point but it's still A2A. Similar sorts of events make the A6M look pretty good against the Dutch P-40s in the NEI. Something like 20 Dutch P40s lost in A2A there, but of those (IIRC dim recesses of memory), something like 8 were shot down in one engagement when bounced in their landing pattern.

They weren't Dutch and they wern't in a landing pattern. Americans of the 17th Provisional Pursuit Squadron.

They engagead an element of the Tainen air group that was escorting some bombers. 7 P-40's were shot down in exchange for 1 A6M. 2/19/42.

If people stick with quoting sources and leave out the emotional baggage, this thread would be 2 pages long instead of going on 6. Lets try and get along a little better. [;)]

Personal Attacks (even when well written) do not accomplish anything except to annoy others. Let's not give Vic any extra work playing the *bad * cop routine.

Oooh.....but I sooooo want to be bad cop though.........it's been awhile. [;)]

Clean'er up people. Nuff said.