Cotton tail 215 wrote:
why fire a cannon at a figther ,you needed power to kill a big
bomber..a .50mm would shredd a zero so why would a P-38 jockey waste
20mm on one


I don't know this for a fact, but I would assume the outcome wasn't guaranteed
and the pilot would want to do anything he could to splash the other guy.
Plenty of P-38s got knocked down.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN


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