VISUAL AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION

"Tankfixer" wrote ...

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"Tankfixer" wrote...

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there is no mention of that fact anywhere on the Internet. As usual,
if
it's not on the internet, it just can't exist according to you.

Again, if it only had left service with the active foruce why can't you
tell us which Air Guard units kept flying them ?

Come on daryl, here is your chance to be the hero and prove your point.

No point to prove here. I was 3 or 4 in 1953 when I asked my Uncle (He
was
a Civilian Employee at Lowry AFB at the time and prior AAC, AAF and USAF)
what were those planes in the sky. He said they were P-38s. Now do I
believe him or you? If you dumb enough to hazard a guess on that
question
then you are even dumber than even I give you credit for.

You were 3 or 4.
I doubt you can remember what he said for sure.

We arn't discussing what he said.
What I have been asking you to do is back up your idea that they
acutally were when the USAF's own records do not back you up.


Now, hurry up and put your pathetic spin on that. Go ahead. Do it. Get
it
over with and go back to you wrecking yet another Military NG.

I'm sorry you wandered into a newsgroup full of people who know the
subject and are now getting spanked Royal.
It was easy for you to avoid the spanking but you are too hard headed to
admit your Uncle could have told you wrong way back then.


Unless someone has a credible cite to dispute it, I'm quite comfortable
claiming that with the references available to me, there were no P-38s or
derivative photo-recon birds in US military service in 1953 (and that
includes the Reserve and Air Guard because of the spares and upkeep
requirements for the engine models and superchargers).

Any single engine, prop driven photo-recon in Air Guard units would have
likely been carried out with the photo-recon P-51 derivative.

An a/c that Dilbert Dumbass conveniently ignores (a) in service in 1953 and
(b) in some eyes easily mistook for a P-38 was the not quite legendary P-82
Twin Mustang night/AW fighter, its radar nacelle giving it a P-38ish look in
some aspects.

The only P-38s around in the US would have been civilian owned, not many,
and most dedicated to air racing, still big in 1953. The P-38 was the first
of the USAAF fighters in service at war's end to leave squadron service
because of fuel consumption and the type-specific skills required to fly it
well. Even P-47s lasted longer in reserve and guard service.

Next Doofus will be telling us about P-63s deployed to Korea or B-18 raids
on L'Orient....

TMO