Aviation & Marine USA
Thunder Over Michigan 2004
Galleries by Duane Hover
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| Lateral View The fifty caliber gun emplacements on Betty's Dream, a North American B-25 Mitchell. Sometimes, you didn't need bombs to take out a ship in Rabaul Harbor. All you needed to do was find where one was hiding the ammunition it was carrying...and that's usually a highly visible area on deck marked with masts and cranes, just above the cargo hold. |
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| How do you Bonzai
Charge against this!? Simply put...by Advancing to the Rear! |
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| This or Jack
Nicholson as the Joker? Which is scarrier? This one is real... |
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| Night Fighter A Vought F4U Corsair restored in the night fighter role. |
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| Profile Interesting how this night fighter's radar looked like an "Eraser" on a pencil. Coincidence? I think not... |
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| Why Not? Call the airplane "The Eraser" and include the inscription on the radar, "Rub 'em out!" Now, if we can just find a bottle of "White Out" to inscribe the nose art with... |
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| Weapons of Mass
Destruction Night Radar, machine guns, a little napalm in that center tank and the Corsair itself, not to mention, the pilot! When it comes to the latest War in Iraq, I don't see what everyone's complaining about! Obviously, Saddam Hussein indeed had Weapons of Mass destruction. Believe me! I watch CNN! Judging by the video and confirmed by the camera guns, they were all over his ass! The President was merely taken out of context! <G> |
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| Korean War Era The markings of this night fighter are Korean War era, where the Marines perfected Night Fighting techniques, which were not as successful in World War II. |
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| Attention Getters... ...that's because you could "reach out and touch someone" with four of these! |
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| Jolly Rogers A Vought F4U Corsair of the US Navy's "Fighting 17th," VF17, the "Jolly Rogers," a squadron that is now known as VF103 and operates with Grumman F-14 Tomcats and Boeing F-18 Hornets. |
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