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"Enzo Matrix" wrote in message ... Emperor provided aircraft for the anti-submarine screen during the D-Day landings, again with Hellcats as fighter cover. Are you sure about that? |
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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Enzo Matrix" wrote in message ... Emperor provided aircraft for the anti-submarine screen during the D-Day landings, again with Hellcats as fighter cover. Are you sure about that? Pretty much. -- Enzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. |
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"Enzo Matrix" wrote in message ... Pretty much. I think you're wrong. Do you have anything to support your assertion? |
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"Andrew B" wrote in message ... wrote in message ng.com... Maybe it's "OK" as a Franklin Mint diecast, but it doesn't hold a candle to a properly built plastic kit. Brian Would this be anywhere near qualifying as what you mean Brian? I've been waiting for an excuse to post the pic for a while now, it was taken while the model was suspended in front of a white-ish wall having given the prop a quick spin. I'm just a little disappointed by the under wing light/reflection. A standard plastic kit completed by my brother. excellent |
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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Enzo Matrix" wrote in message ... Pretty much. I think you're wrong. Do you have anything to support your assertion? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Emperor_(D98) http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/034.htm One of the photographs here clearly shows a Hellcat with invasion stripes, although the carrier was engaged on Operation DRAGOON at the time. -- Enzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. |
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Hellcat Mk I - NICE ! ! !
"Enzo Matrix" wrote in message ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Emperor_(D98) http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/034.htm One of the photographs here clearly shows a Hellcat with invasion stripes, although the carrier was engaged on Operation DRAGOON at the time. The presence of invasion stripes does not indicate an aircraft participated in the D-Day landings, it just indicates it operated over western Europe on June 6 1944 or later. http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avf6f.html#m4 |
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"Andrew B" wrote in
om: wrote in message ng.com... Oh yes, that definitely qualifies. brian Thanks Brian, he is currently working on a U-boat which I think should look rather good. And photographed airborne in a simulated sky... ;^} Nice model and photo! Bob ^,,^ |
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Hellcat Mk I - NICE ! ! !
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Enzo Matrix" wrote in message ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Emperor_(D98) http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/034.htm One of the photographs here clearly shows a Hellcat with invasion stripes, although the carrier was engaged on Operation DRAGOON at the time. The presence of invasion stripes does not indicate an aircraft participated in the D-Day landings, it just indicates it operated over western Europe on June 6 1944 or later. Agreed. However we have two documents that mention Ermperor's service during the D-Day landings. One document states that Emperor "served on anti-submarine detail during Operation Overlord". The other states she "served as an ASW patrol ship at Normandy". The same two documents also claim that Emperor took part in Operations TUNGSTEN and DRAGOON. TUNGSTEN preceded OVERLORD, DRAGOON was after it. Both TUNGSTEN and DRAGOON involved the use of Hellcats from Emperor. It doesn't seem likely that the Hellcats were removed from Emperor before D-Day and replaced with some other naval fighter, only to be returned to the ship immediately afterwards. My statement, which you questioned, was "Emperor provided aircraft for the anti-submarine screen during the D-Day landings, again with Hellcats as fighter cover", which seems pretty much supported by those two documents. -- Enzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me. |
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Hellcat Mk I - NICE ! ! !
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Enzo Matrix" wrote in message ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Emperor_(D98) http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/034.htm One of the photographs here clearly shows a Hellcat with invasion stripes, although the carrier was engaged on Operation DRAGOON at the time. The presence of invasion stripes does not indicate an aircraft participated in the D-Day landings, it just indicates it operated over western Europe on June 6 1944 or later. 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. -- Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by Italians. http://new.photos.yahoo.com/paul1cart/albums/ |
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"Bob Harrington" wrote in message
... And photographed airborne in a simulated sky... ;^} Nice model and photo! Bob ^,,^ Thank you Bob. -- Andrew "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.) |
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