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Added 2019-09-30 17:05:46 +0000 UTCHey all,
Please submit your questions for the upcoming Q&A here. If you submitted them on any previous posts since the last Q&A video, no need to resubmit. I have them.
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Hi, when did search and rescue for downed pilots start in History? maybe in the pacific by the USNavy?
2019-10-04 09:18:39 +0000 UTCnice pix of a 'stringbag'
H Norman Angell
2019-10-01 05:05:57 +0000 UTCHi Bismark, I can think of six or seven single engine fighter aircraft mass produced by the US aircraft industry during WWII. I don't know as much about Soviet or British types but there were quite a few there as well. In my limited knowledge it seems the vast majority of the Luftwaffe fighter aircraft were progressively improved versions of just two types. This seems to be backwards from armored vehicle production and deployment. It is commonly stated that the WWII tank programs of the US and USSR were capable of achieving much higher output compared to Germany partly due to focusing largely on a single design. Any thoughts on how aircraft and the aircraft industry may have been different from other parts of the arms complex?
2019-09-30 22:37:24 +0000 UTCHi Francis
2019-09-30 21:30:34 +0000 UTCBooks that collect from pilot's personal journals can be good for that. In the past year I have read "A Dawn Like Thunder" (about US Torpedo Squadron 8) and there are descriptions of what it was like at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal while the battle for the island was on. I have also read an account of one of the pilots who was able to fly the Me-262, and he also describes what living at an airfield that is in range of a lot of bombers is like. In both cases, ditches were both best friend and most loathed enemy.
Dave D
2019-09-30 20:20:24 +0000 UTCJust a small idea. Is it possible to compare and contrast the daily lives of English, German and Russian pilots when they were NOT flying??? Is it at all even possible for us to understand what those people experienced?
Francis McGarry
2019-09-30 19:33:46 +0000 UTC
