Help - need explanation on the 'later in WWII' side numbering systems. I notice R631 and B034 mentioned recently. When did this numbering system start, and...
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David Legg
david_legg@...
Jul 3, 1999 5:46 am
Harleyford's 'Aircraft Camouflage and Markings, 1907-1954' is not overly
helpful but quotes the following: "Pre-war squadron markings were still used
in many...
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R. O. Blankenship
roblank@...
Jul 4, 1999 7:57 am
Hi Heijo
I have been in correspondence with "Richard M. Douglass" <rmdover2u@...> and He would
like to join the group. He was having...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Jul 4, 1999 1:31 pm
This attachment is the one I thought I sent you last week. VP-52 and VP-51 were East Coast sister squadrons - this photo was probably taken in the fall of...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Jul 6, 1999 9:32 pm
Not a PBY, but just as loveable, specially ten all in a row.
Regards to all, Wynnum.
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James C Sawruk
jsawruk@...
Jul 6, 1999 9:32 pm
Heiji,
Please let Richard Douglass into the group. I had told him to try and
join up!
Jim Sawruk...
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hkuil@...
Jul 6, 1999 10:07 pm
Hello Bob Blankenship, Jim Sawruk and members
Richard Douglas is a member since July 4th
Welcome to Douglas!!
He should have received several messages...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Jul 7, 1999 4:06 pm
Where's Willie Sneed?
Surely he wouldn't run his R1830 between 2100 - 2300 RPM for more than
passing through, or RPM drop checks..
The engine can be...
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ab4fk@...
Jul 7, 1999 4:09 pm
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George B Winter
pbycat@...
Jul 9, 1999 1:11 am
Bill;
Didn't the first word begin with S and the second B.
Cheers
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All members can...
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WSneed3994@...
Jul 9, 1999 1:11 am
Dear Wynnum:
The power settings were used in various variations according to what the job that was at hand. On the long hops you throttled back and slowed...
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Marc Commandeur
pby@...
Jul 9, 1999 1:11 am
Gentlemen,
I found this in my inbox:
HI,
A few paragraphs in Saburo Sakai's (with Martin Caidin) book "Samurai!"
have long bothered me. He wrote about his...
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Richard M. Douglass
rmdover2u@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:17 pm
Hello,
Saw Marc's comments and will add a few. My guess is that Saburo Sakai was a
pretty good observer, and probably wouldn't have mistaken a B-17 for a PBY,...
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Alan Broadbent
aboonski@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:18 pm
Greetings from West Melbourne Florida to all E-Group members. I have been noticing several messages relating to fuel and RPM settings for the PBY. In my...
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Francis H Clifton
FHCPBYFOR@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:18 pm
Willie S.; Let me see if I remember the power setting. Check me out on
these.
Take off; Full power and full prop with full rich fuel mixture. We
called it...
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ab4fk@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:18 pm
Roger that George, But why are we trying to hard to be straight laced these days...
Sugar Bags ---for instance ....I just came away from the TV boob tube...
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ab4fk@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:18 pm
Hi Willie, That reference to glassy water take offs..... I think maybe that's where
the phrase "Make waves, somebody , anybody, Heeeelllllp....make...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:19 pm
I have a letter somewhere from Admiral J. J. Hyland (pre-war, he was Engineer Officer of BP-102 at Olongapo) written some years ago where he mentions being a...
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James C Sawruk
jsawruk@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:19 pm
Marc,
Any information from Martin Caiden's 'SAMURAI' book is suspect to being
incorrect. Much of it was done without Saburo Sakai's knowledge and SAKAI
was...
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BUTTER1942@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:19 pm
Hi. Your brother shouldn't have taken too much kidding about being a "slick sleave", as a Chief without a hash mark was referred as. There were an awful...
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derm barrett
barrettd@...
Jul 12, 1999 9:19 pm
Hi,
My interest in Catalina/Cansos goes back to the spring of 1945 when I was a Flying Officer navigator (Royal Canadian Air Force) on Cansos doing...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:14 pm
ab4FK is right - why all the push to be PC all the time? Presumably, what we are talking about is what happened. Does anyone think that the white hats in...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:14 pm
My brother Ted was a slick=arm chief (ACOM) but it took some doing and he certainly never felt apologetic about it. Here's the chronology, for those who...
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Walter L. Bourgeois
w5vb@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:14 pm
FYI - Yeh! Guys:
That's correct. I made ACRM(AA)T at Cory Field, Pensacola ... was rated
effective August 1st 1944, two weeks before I was 21 ... and...
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larry &lorene katz
papakatz@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:14 pm
ab4fk@... wrote:
> > Hi Willie,
> That reference to glassy water take offs..... I think maybe that's where
> the phrase "Make waves, somebody...
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WSneed3994@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:16 pm
Dear F. Clifton:
Your remember is good as far as mine tells me. I tried to explain this in my note, the problem at hand some time altered all written or...
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Francis H Clifton
FHCPBYFOR@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:16 pm
Alan; I have never seen the card you show on your message. However, I
could not read the numbers. How do they compare with the numbers in my
message? How...
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Nevins Frankel
vpnavy@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:16 pm
One question and one info...
1) Do you want me to change all your e-mails to
pby@egroups.com?
2) I sent a message to the Boston Globe asking
permission to...
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larry &lorene katz
papakatz@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:15 pm
BUTTER1942@... wrote:
> > Hi. Your brother shouldn't have taken too much kidding about being a "slick
> sleave", as a Chief without a hash mark was...
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R. O. Blankenship
roblank@...
Jul 14, 1999 9:15 pm
Hi Group
I received this email and I can't help at all on her question. I wonder
if anyone else can help with firsthand knowledge.
Thanks Bob....
