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21 May 13, 11:16
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Location: Toronto
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Baker's Dozen of WWII Air Aces' Aircraft
1. Cdr. David McCampbell's F6F Hellcat "Minsi III"
2. Major Erich Hartmann's BF109 "Usch"
3. Maj. Robert F. Galer's F4F-3 Wildcat "MF-1"
4. Major(?) Ivan Kozhedub's Lavochin 5 "White 75" and "White 14"
5. Lt. Col Duane Beeson's P-47 and P-51
6. Colonel (?) Alexander Pokryshkin's P-39 "White 100"
7. Pilot Officer George Beurling's Spitfire VC
8. Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck's Spitfire VB
9. Pierre Le Gloan's Dewoitine 520
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21 May 13, 12:54
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Coming to a theater near you.
Posts: 14,245
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Baker's Dozen of WWII Air Aces' Aircraft
1. Cdr. David McCampbell's F6F Hellcat "Minsi III"
2. Major Erich Hartmann's BF109 "Usch"
3. Maj. Robert F. Galer's F4F-3 Wildcat "MF-1"
4. Major(?) Ivan Kozhedub's Lavochin 5 "White 75" and "White 14"
5. Lt. Col Duane Beeson's P-47 and P-51
6. Colonel (?) Alexander Pokryshkin's P-39 "White 100"
7. Pilot Officer George Beurling's Spitfire VC
8. Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck's Spitfire VB
9. Pierre Le Gloan's Dewoitine 520
10. Wing Commander Stanisław Skalski's P-51 "SS"
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Eagles may fly; but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines!
"I'm not expendable; I'm not stupid and I'm not going." - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7
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21 May 13, 19:49
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wilmington NC
Posts: 722
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Baker's Dozen of WWII Air Aces' Aircraft
1. Cdr. David McCampbell's F6F Hellcat "Minsi III"
2. Major Erich Hartmann's BF109 "Usch"
3. Maj. Robert F. Galer's F4F-3 Wildcat "MF-1"
4. Major(?) Ivan Kozhedub's Lavochin 5 "White 75" and "White 14"
5. Lt. Col Duane Beeson's P-47 and P-51
6. Colonel (?) Alexander Pokryshkin's P-39 "White 100"
7. Pilot Officer George Beurling's Spitfire VC
8. Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck's Spitfire VB
9. Pierre Le Gloan's Dewoitine 520
10.Wing Commander Stanisław Skalski's P-51 "SS"
11. Major Robin Olds's P-38 "Scat 2"
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21 May 13, 20:47
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Coming to a theater near you.
Posts: 14,245
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Baker's Dozen of WWII Air Aces' Aircraft
1. Cdr. David McCampbell's F6F Hellcat "Minsi III"
2. Major Erich Hartmann's BF109 "Usch"
3. Maj. Robert F. Galer's F4F-3 Wildcat "MF-1"
4. Major(?) Ivan Kozhedub's Lavochin 5 "White 75" and "White 14"
5. Lt. Col Duane Beeson's P-47 and P-51
6. Colonel (?) Alexander Pokryshkin's P-39 "White 100"
7. Pilot Officer George Beurling's Spitfire VC
8. Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck's Spitfire VB
9. Pierre Le Gloan's Dewoitine 520
10.Wing Commander Stanisław Skalski's P-51 "SS"
11. Major Robin Olds's P-38 "Scat 2"
12. Sub-Lieutenant Saburō Sakai's A6M2-21 Zero
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Eagles may fly; but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines!
"I'm not expendable; I'm not stupid and I'm not going." - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7
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22 May 13, 03:54
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Savonlinna
Posts: 112
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Baker's Dozen of WWII Air Aces' Aircraft
1. Cdr. David McCampbell's F6F Hellcat "Minsi III"
2. Major Erich Hartmann's BF109 "Usch"
3. Maj. Robert F. Galer's F4F-3 Wildcat "MF-1"
4. Major(?) Ivan Kozhedub's Lavochin 5 "White 75" and "White 14"
5. Lt. Col Duane Beeson's P-47 and P-51
6. Colonel (?) Alexander Pokryshkin's P-39 "White 100"
7. Pilot Officer George Beurling's Spitfire VC
8. Wing Commander Robert Stanford Tuck's Spitfire VB
9. Pierre Le Gloan's Dewoitine 520
10.Wing Commander Stanisław Skalski's P-51 "SS"
11. Major Robin Olds's P-38 "Scat 2"
12. Sub-Lieutenant Saburō Sakai's A6M2-21 Zero
13. Captain Jorma Sarvanto's Fokker D.XXI 'FR-97'
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Vice Admiral Ankka Van Der Zee, Commander of Dutch West Indies Fleet
"There is never enough firepower!"
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22 May 13, 04:04
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Savonlinna
Posts: 112
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Baker's Dozen of Kill ratings/losses!
1.Dutch Ground to Air losses vs Luftwaffe aircraft shot down!
191 losses for Dutch Ground based AA units vs around 500 Luftwaffe aircraft lost, around 200 pilot and crew members killed and about 1350 POW transported to Britain
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Vice Admiral Ankka Van Der Zee, Commander of Dutch West Indies Fleet
"There is never enough firepower!"
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22 May 13, 08:59
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Coming to a theater near you.
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Baker's Dozen of Kill ratings/losses!
1.Dutch Ground to Air losses vs Luftwaffe aircraft shot down!
2. US Submarines in the PTO
Destroyed over 5.6 million tons of Japanese ships including 1 aircraft carrier, 1 battleship and 11 cruisers against the loss of 48 submarines. 
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Eagles may fly; but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines!
"I'm not expendable; I'm not stupid and I'm not going." - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7
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22 May 13, 15:53
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Real Name: Susan
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Texas
Posts: 641
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Baker's Dozen of Kill ratings/losses!
1.Dutch Ground to Air losses vs Luftwaffe aircraft shot down!
2. US Submarines in the PTO
3. F6F Hellcat vs. Japanese aircraft
13:1 Kill:loss ratio, highest of any american aircraft
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“The past isn't dead. It's not even past." -William Faulkner
"Military buffs have a weakness for flashy losers - Rommel, Robert E. Lee, Napoleon." - Richard Brookhiser
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22 May 13, 15:56
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Coming to a theater near you.
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Baker's Dozen of Kill ratings/losses!
1.Dutch Ground to Air losses vs Luftwaffe aircraft shot down!
2. US Submarines in the PTO
3. F6F Hellcat vs. Japanese aircraft
4. F4U Corsair vs. Japanese aircraft
11:1 kill ratio.
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Eagles may fly; but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines!
"I'm not expendable; I'm not stupid and I'm not going." - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7
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Yesterday, 19:55
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Real Name: Pierre
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Canada
Posts: 5,592
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Baker's Dozen of Kill ratings/losses!
1.Dutch Ground to Air losses vs Luftwaffe aircraft shot down!
2. US Submarines in the PTO
3. F6F Hellcat vs. Japanese aircraft
4. F4U Corsair vs. Japanese aircraft
5. Bomber Command vs German air defences.
Of every 100 airmen who flew missions over occupied Europe, 45 were killed, 6 were seriously wounded, 8 became Prisoners of War; only 41 surviving unscathed.
Of those who were flying at the beginning of the war, only ten percent survived.
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Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
Please don't take it the wrong way if I don't thank you for Rep points. To be perfectly honest, I'm not on these boards to collect them, although they are appreciated :)
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Real Name: Chad
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Idaho
Posts: 5,441
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Baker's Dozen of Kill ratings/losses!
1.Dutch Ground to Air losses vs Luftwaffe aircraft shot down!
2. US Submarines in the PTO
3. F6F Hellcat vs. Japanese aircraft
4. F4U Corsair vs. Japanese aircraft
5. Bomber Command vs German air defences.
6. German U-Boats in the Atlantic
Axis vs. Allied
783 subs/30k sailors vs. 3675 ships/ 72k sailors
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"It's all in the reflexes"
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Today, 16:04
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Coming to a theater near you.
Posts: 14,245
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Baker's Dozen of Kill ratings/losses!
1. Dutch Ground to Air losses vs Luftwaffe aircraft shot down!
2. US Submarines in the PTO
3. F6F Hellcat vs. Japanese aircraft
4. F4U Corsair vs. Japanese aircraft
5. Bomber Command vs German air defences.
6. German U-Boats in the Atlantic
7. Battle & Rape of Nanking: Chinese vs. Japanese
China: 330-350,000 killed (300,000 civilians) Japan: 6,000 killed
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Eagles may fly; but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines!
"I'm not expendable; I'm not stupid and I'm not going." - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7
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