Posted on Aug 27, 2017

How Long-Range Fighter Escorts Helped Take down Hitler's Empire

PO1 Tony Holland

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How Long-Range Fighter Escorts Helped Take down Hitler's Empire

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LTC Orlando Illi

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P51 was a great plane.

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It was so good that there was a Pentagon plan to bring an updated P51 into service as a close air support aircraft.

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PFC (Join to see) - they used the Skyraider in Vietnam. We'll see
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-1_Skyraider?wprov=sfla1

Douglas A-1 Skyraider - Wikipedia

The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly AD) is an American single-seat attack aircraft that saw service between the late 1940s and early 1980s. The Skyraider had a remarkably long and successful career; it became a piston-powered, propeller-driven anachronism in the jet age, and was nicknamed "Spad", after the French World War I fighter.[2]

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LTC Orlando Illi - well the plan has been shelved it was contingent on the idea of the a10 being retired now that is no longer the case the plan has been shelved indefinitely.

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