"Aerial Arsenal at Leyte Gulf" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Oct 2019 11:36 a.m. PST |
High-performance aircraft were key when the U.S. Third and Seventh fleets faced off against Japanese surface forces, land-based planes, and carrier aircraft in October 1944… link |
Shagnasty  | 23 Oct 2019 12:02 p.m. PST |
All true but I love the Dauntless! |
ScottWashburn  | 23 Oct 2019 12:10 p.m. PST |
Pilot training and experience was just as important as the aircraft--perhaps more so. By this stage of the war, even green US pilots had hundreds of hours of flight time while many Japanese pilots barely knew how to fly, let alone fly in combat. |
 Yellow Admiral | 23 Oct 2019 1:46 p.m. PST |
That article describes the contents of my crafting desk right now.  - Ix |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 23 Oct 2019 5:18 p.m. PST |
I doubt that high performance aircraft were the key to that battle, actually. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 25 Oct 2019 6:21 a.m. PST |
A weapon is only as effective as the warrior who
wields it – and a warrior with an inferior weapon
is a casualty-in-waiting. The USN had, by mid-1944 very well trained and in
many cases very experienced and very well-led
pilots and aircrews. Couple those with the F4U, the F6F, the SB2C and the
TBF/M – which compared with their IJN counterparts
were 'high performance' indeed – and it is fair to
say that the pair (warrior and weapon) were key to
the outcome – numbers too, of course. |
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