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The P-47s in BoS45 now sporting new historical paint scheme used by 60 Squadron (and possibly 81 Squadron) in Surabaya.
im a bit of an airforce nut, was local 26 sqn reservist and wwII aircraft buff, and the white and blue rings meant RAAF, but 2 problems for my reasons.
1 circles way to small,though rear tail right aize.
2 RAAF didnt use thunderbolts. boomerang ,hurricans,p40 kittyhawks, spitfire mk4~8,mustangs later on.
im a bit of an airforce nut, was local 26 sqn reservist and wwII aircraft buff, and the white and blue rings meant RAAF, but 2 problems for my reasons.
1 circles way to small,though rear tail right aize.
2 RAAF didnt use thunderbolts. boomerang ,hurricans,p40 kittyhawks, spitfire mk4~8,mustangs later on.
Hi Tack,
They're not RAAF...like my original post, they're P-47 Thunderbolts of 60 Sqn, RAF, SEAC.
The red inner circle of RAF-based roundels on planes based in the Asia-Pacific was painted white or light blue, so they would not be confused for the Hinomaru red circle (red meatball insignia) on Japanese planes.
The US whited out thier red too. Pre war they used a blue circle with a white star with a red 'dot' in the center. If I remember rightly, mighta made it up
yeah, post pearl i think ur right hawkerhart, shootin down ur own planes sucked a bit.
we had japanese spotter sea planes fly over newcastle and sydney 3 days before they sent 2 midget subs from mother sub in sydney, missed US cruser, hit and sunk mhas katabul approx 19 died. newcastle got shelled(25 odd 5.5" shells, 1/3 failed to explode,ex ww1 english stock) no casualties. only land based fort in australia ever to engage enemy navy vessell in our history(english mk5 6" 1919 approx age,oddly firing black powder as cordite shattered all windows in residents nearby,who incidently took some jap shells, time to move if ur next door to a fort in war?)
basically missidentified as local flying boats from rathmines(pby5 catilinas mainstay, hardly anything like jap apart from a sea plane). if identified properly a different scenario.
yeah id have thought a catalina was pretty distinctive, though i'm no expert on japanesse aircraft. Something like this I guess http://www.combinedfleet.com/ijna/h5y.htm
Still, strange things can happen when the war comes up close, like the German Uboat that actually got into Scapa Flow in 1939 sinking HMS Royal Oak.
hawk, yeah the sherry is a ringer, but these where single engine type that where on subs packed away i believe. but i think u get idea, twin pontoon single engine flys over sydney 1942 and nobody seemed to bother shooting back!
I remember reading of a Me-110 bombing run during the battle of Britain. It lined up with an RAF runway, dropped its speed, flaps and landing gear. From head-on the ground crew thought it was a friendly coming in to land. It closed the distance unmolested, lined up its sights on a row of planes and in one run took out half a dozen aircraft.
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