KenH
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If he hadnt pulled up he'd have given the narrator a clip down to his waist.....
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Well, what else would you do with it?Originally posted by Lars:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by KenH:
GD suicidal jockeys, messing with an irreplaceable warbird like that!
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GD suicidal jockeys, messing with an irreplaceable warbird like that!
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** Pictures the closing moments of the Battle of Hoth with rebels being squashed like ants..... :eek:Originally posted by Lucho:A underdog of numbers:
My platoon of Tigers against a reinforced Batallion of advancing russian infantry I catched in the open during a rainstorm.
Ok, it was a slaughter
(kept the tanks moving all the time and encircled the bunch of infantry like Indians did to settlers).
Uh huh, underdogs indeed
Their biggest problem might be hosing off the treads later..... -
Chuck Yeager mentions flying the 262 against the P-80 in comparison tests in his biography, and the 2 aircraft had nearly identical performance. The only difference being the 262's swept-wing design giving the edge in near-transonic regimes. The swept wing concept would be properly employed on the F-86 (and the MiG 15..)
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Something about the whining roar of a Rolls-Merlin that just brings a tear to your eye
The fact that they power two of the sweetest fighters of the war (Spit, Mustang B -onward) probably doesnt hurt either
Oh, PTO deserves mention (for the P+W R2800 guys
)Hellcat - Ensigns airplane, easy to handle, designed specifically to kill the Zero
Corsair - Ensign Eliminator
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You bastard! Get back here with that panzerfaust!!
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Yeah 5"/38s at 100m make swiss cheese out of even BB armour :eek: (vertical armour anyways)
You gotta love the DD guys, exchanging everything from main battery to .45 sidearm fire with a Battleship as you steam past at 30+ knots
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Psst, Atlanta-class CL's had 5"/38s; 15 x 6" I think you're thinking of a Brooklyn-classOriginally posted by Shosties4th:Yeah, serious torpedo envy on the part of the USN for WW2! Theirs actually went boom (
), were fast, and had much longer reach than ours.Still, I would have taken the fifteen rapid fire 6" and good radar that the USS Atlanta had. If you miss with torpedoes you've largely shot your bolt. Guns are the gift that keeps on giving.
Too bad Adm. Callaghan was old school.
As it was, that melee hurt the Japanese significantly.EDIT: as far as going "from worst to best", I think this an unfair label for the USN. Would the RN have done that much better under those conditions?
And in The Brawl, both Atlantas didnt do so good (mind you, no one was unscuffed , except USS Fletcher ) with Atlanta pounded by both IJN and friendly fire and sinking later, and Juneau getting her back broke by a long lance, and later obliterated by SS torp while retiring. Gotta love those monster Long Lances though, serious force-multipliers
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USN BuOrd, who for years ignored the reports from the Pacific of the faulty exploder on the Mk14 Torpedo. "You dont expect us to actually TEST them do you?? Do you know how much they cost???" Oy.....
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punt!Originally posted by Lars:The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
A couple of US Destroyers vs. a Japanese Battleship Fleet.
A very good read.
Seriously, Jeeps vs Giants , probably the greatest display of heroism in WW2 by the United States Navy. If anyone knows anyone in Hollywood, THIS is a story that needs to be told and given a proper modern CGI treatment
Salute!
Oh, for further fighter-pilot nominees, Hans-Joachim Marseille; 158 victories, all against the western allies. KIA when his chute failed to open after a bad bail/inflight engine fire.
has some great stuff
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*you dont see a skunkworks here....
uh, I dont see any skunkworks here....
* you want to go home and play more CMAK
I want to go home and play more CMAK....
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"bad things happen" should be a seperate thread
Worst I've experienced was having a mortar shell score a 3-point basket (no rim) into the open hatch of my sole Panther :eek:
I think I spent about 3 min staring at the burning wreck.......
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Anyone ever have a damaged building disintegrate when firing a zook? I seem to remember a screenshot of that happening once in CMBO
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WW II online dweebery
pretty much covers it.Funny, didnt see it mentioned for any of those awards there, but did see CMAK though.....
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My father was too young to get called up, but if the war had gone on into 1945, he would have been. His older brother worked as ground crew in the RAF with Bomber Command; his next older brother was with the Desert Rats, surviving getting his ammo truck blown up :eek:
My mother's older brother was in the RN, on destroyers, getting sunk twice (once in the North Sea, once in the Med) rescued both times
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My father was too young to get called up, but if the war had gone on into 1945, he would have been. His older brother worked as ground crew in the RAF with Bomber Command; his next older brother was with the Desert Rats, surviving getting his ammo truck blown up :eek:
My mother's older brother was in the RN, on destroyers, getting sunk twice (once in the North Sea, once in the Med) rescued both times
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My father was too young to get called up, but if the war had gone on into 1945, he would have been. His older brother worked as ground crew in the RAF with Bomber Command; his next older brother was with the Desert Rats, surviving getting his ammo truck blown up :eek:
My mother's older brother was in the RN, on destroyers, getting sunk twice (once in the North Sea, once in the Med) rescued both times
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Be a bitch to line up 5 targets properly though
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Very funny FlufOriginally posted by Fluf:Ah, Bruce Mines, home of my Mother-In-Law. A swirling metropolis, to be sure. Sault Ste Marie is the suburb to the west, right?
No sign of CMAK in Almonte, but, checking in at the local post office revealed that they're down to 50% staff there and in surrounding towns due to workers and managers being "off sick". The parcels are stacking up on the other side of the counters.
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Originally posted by Jock Abroad:
JEEEEEEZ! How do you rate? I live in the Sault too and pre-ordered mine Nov. 21st with a shipment date of Dec. 5th and STILL no sign of CM:AK...you lucky baz!
-tom w
With any luck at all, it'll be in todays mail. Thats at least 3 Saultites now CM players
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WOWOriginally posted by aka_tom_w:</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by KenH:
Arrived in Sault, Ont
Just in time, storm warning with lots of snow coming
did you pre-order?
did the border theives
hold you up for GST and PST?
has anyone in Canada
got stuck with border
duties PST and GST yet?
thanks for all the updates.
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Arrived in Sault, Ont
Just in time, storm warning with lots of snow coming
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), were fast, and had much longer reach than ours.
As it was, that melee hurt the Japanese significantly.
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