"The War’s Oddest Dogfight" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Dec 2019 9:36 p.m. PST |
"One of the strangest dogfights—involving three four-engine bombers—occurred in World War II. It happened the morning of August 17, 1943, when an American B-24D Liberator encountered a pair of German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors over the Atlantic Ocean, about 300 miles west of Lisbon, Portugal. The Condors were flying from Bordeaux in occupied France to attack a British convoy sailing from Gibraltar to Scotland. The Liberator, attached to the U.S. Army Air Forces' 480th Antisubmarine Group, was on the way from its base in French Morocco to protect those British ships. The 480th had been flying from Port Lyautey in Morocco against German U-boats for several months. Big, boxy, and all-business, the Liberator had the long range required for anti-submarine missions. Modified from its original heavy bombing role, it became an Allied favorite for sub-hunting. These missions were vital to the Allied cause of blunting U-boat attacks on convoys shuttling between Britain and Gibraltar…"
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| Evzone | 22 Dec 2019 12:37 a.m. PST |
Thank you Armand, fascinating stuff! |
 Yellow Admiral  | 22 Dec 2019 7:27 a.m. PST |
You posted this same article a year and a half ago: TMP link I even bought miniatures to fight it out. - Ix |
| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2019 3:23 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) There are new people here… (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Thresher01 | 22 Dec 2019 5:55 p.m. PST |
There have been fights like that between Float/Sea planes too. Sunderland vs. FW=200, IIRC. |
| Yellow Admiral | 23 Dec 2019 12:43 a.m. PST |
Last year I played a fun game that pitted a bunch of Ju-88s against a single Sunderland flying boat. That was actually really fun. - Ix |
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