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![]() "Cub Driver" wrote in message ... I'm wondering why they didn't ALL head for Vladivostok... seems a safer alternative in my mind... The object was to get the planes to China, where they would have joined the CATF. They failed because of the early launch (a Japanese fishing boat / picket boat? spotted the task force), which stretched the flight beyond their capabilities. Directing them to Russia would have been to throw away both planes and crews. (Russia was obligated to intern them, and did so for a time.) It certainly was a screw-up. What I don't understand is that if the formation had launched later in the morning, they would have gotten to China later at night. What chance did they ever have of a safe landing? Pretty poor but they'd have had more fuel to spare to look for an airfield. Keith |
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