February 28th 07, 06:05 PM
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Hellcat Mk I - NICE ! ! !
Blume, Alf wrote:
"Enzo Matrix" skrev i en meddelelse
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http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avf6f.html#m4
From http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/034.htm comes this quote:
HMS Emperor was outfitted as a strike/CAP carrier. Provided fighter
cover for a strike on German battleship Tirpitz;
served as an ASW patrol ship at Normandy and supported invasion of
southern France before transferring to the Pacific.
which does support Enzo's statement that the ship was at Normandy on
D-Day.
Steven's link http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avf6f.html#m4 states "The
Hellcat Is did not participate in the Normandy invasion in June
1944". It seems most unlikely that a valuable resource such as a squadron
of very potent fighters would have sat out the biggest operation of
the war. It may be splitting hairs, but there is a way that we can
*both* be right. It is possible that Emperor's Hellcats were
directly involved in fighter cover for the ASW screen, either in the
Western Approaches or in the English Channel itself, and so did not
actually make an appearance over the Normandy beach head. Therefore,
they didn't actually *participate* in the invasion, but they did
*support* it.
Grasping at straws now? ;-)
LOL As always.
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Enzo
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.
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