pacific ocean theater

  1. Grey Havoc

    Ansett Australia

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqcc2ActCCU
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 20th century air new zealand ansett airlines of australia ansett airways ansett transport industries ansett-ana british commonwealth british empire civil aviation cold war commonwealth of australia early 21st century interwar period late 1930s new zealand pacific ocean theater post-cold war sir reginald myles ansett kbe united states army air forces world war ii
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  2. Flyaway

    PT-347 - The WW2 disaster you’ve probably never heard of

    I’d never heard of this before, but it’s one of the worst friendly fire incidents I’ve heard of from WW2, made worse that no action was taken against the person who seemingly was most responsible for it.
    • Flyaway
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    • pacific ocean theater torpedo boat u.s. navy united states navy usmc world war ii
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    • Forum: The Bar
  3. M

    Tufi airfield in New Guinea?

    I am reading an article on the LW/AW radar set designed in Australia. It states the first production unit went into full operation at Tufi in November 1942. When I google Tufi airfield, all I find is this web page, which claims it was built in the 1960s...
    • Maury Markowitz
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    • allies australian new guinea administrative unit british commonwealth commonwealth of australia new guinea campaign new guinea force oro province pacific ocean theater radar royal australian air force territory of papua united states navy world war ii
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    • Forum: Military
  4. A

    WW2 War-Winning Kit.

    Himself a crucial Allied asset (imposing Jointery, heedless of uniform colour) SACEUR Ike's Memoir (Crusade in Europe) gave 5 “pieces of eqpt (we) came to regard as among the most vital (to) success” (in his ETO: doubtless a Macarthur Pacific list would differ). Published in 1948 he disclosed no...
  5. J

    CA-12 Boomerang Evolution

    In July 1940 the hounded British government warns the Australians of an imminent embargo of any aviation materials. On 10 December 1941 the capital ships of the Royal Navy H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse are sunk by Japanese airplanes. On 21 December of the same month, the firm...
    • Justo Miranda
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    • british commonwealth british empire commonwealth aircraft corporation commonwealth of australia curtiss-wright corporation general electric pacific ocean theater post-world war ii pratt & whitney rolls-royce royal australian air force world war ii wright aeronautical corporation
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  6. C

    Ironhorse Artificial Harbor | Operation Coronet, circa March 1946 | U.S. Planned Invasion of Honshu

    SOURCE: Giangreco, D. M. (2009). Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947. Naval Institute Press.
  7. Grey Havoc

    Shoichi Yokoi memorial museum closes

    https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220905/p2a/00m/0na/020000c?dicbo=v2-c68a3d101177a19f336252dfd46fdc77
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2006 2022 empire of japan imperial japanese army japan nagoya pacific ocean theater pacific war world war ii
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    • Forum: Museums, Events & Shows
  8. J

    Identify please (German radar in US fighter?)

    In this Douglas P-70 night fighter of the 419th NFS, crash landed at Piva-Bougainville by Lt Donald Dessert, the fixed quarter wave dipoles for azimuth receiving have been replaced by four german style “Stachel” rods. Can anyone identify which radar they belong to?
  9. J

    Airspeed jet-propelled float seaplane.

    Fighter project, 1943 The Airspeed firm suggested to the Admiralty the transformation of the radio-controlled flying-boat target aircraft AS-37 into a scaled-up jet fighter, powered by one de Havilland Halford H.1 centrifugal-flow turbojet with 1,225 kgf static thrust in the forward area of the...
  10. M

    Blackburn B.44

    Does anyone have any information, pictures etc... of the Blackburn B.44 float fighter. I have British Secret Projects, and there is limited information in the back. Does anyone have anything further? Thank you, DJM
  11. Grey Havoc

    USS Nevada (BB-36)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nevada_(BB-36)
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1940s d-day european theater of operations pacific ocean theater pearl harbor the greatest generation the history guy utah beach world war ii
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    • Forum: Military
  12. Grey Havoc

    1942 Raid on Makin Island (The History Guy)

    The Youtube comments are well worth a look.
    • Grey Havoc
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    • gung-ho lcr (l) marine raiders pacific ocean theater special operations usmc uss argonaut uss nautilus world war ii
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    • Forum: Military
  13. Grey Havoc

    USMC Stinger machine gun

    http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2020/01/fullbore-friday_17.html https://www.guns.com/news/2012/08/15/stinger-light-machinegun
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1940s anm2 bar m1 garand pacific ocean theater squad automatic weapon united states marine corps world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  14. Jemiba

    Aichi M6A1 « Seiran »

    Reading the chapter about the Aichi M6A1 Seiran/I-400 submarine in "Strike From Beneath The Sea" by Terry C. Treadwell, I wondered, why this aircraft actually were fitted with floats ? In the mentioned book and in other sources, too, it's said, that they should be catapulted from the submarine...
    • Jemiba
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    • aichi kokuki kk axis powers empire of japan imperial japanese navy imperial japanese navy air service pacific ocean theater sen-toku world war ii
    • Replies: 58
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  15. OM

    The Zero - Self-Sealing tanks?

    ...According to comments from someone on another forum, the Jap Zero's main weakness was that its fuel tanks were not "self-sealing", and that once hit they leaked profusely. Was this actually the case, and can anyone provide info on just exactly how the self-sealing tanks on Allied planes...
    • OM
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    • commonwealth of australia empire of japan fighter fighters imperial japanese navy ministry of the navy (japan) mitsubishi pacific ocean theater self-sealing fuel tanks world war ii
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  16. M

    SHINYO Demolition Boats

    Hello everybody There were several Shinyo types built ! Are there any projects? I have heard about a OHKA towed by a SHINYO BOAT ? Many greetings
    • moin1900
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    • empire of japan imperial japanese navy pacific ocean theater pacific war tokkō tokubetsu kōgekitai world war ii
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  17. P

    In Flight Refuelling

    This idea was proved pre WW2 but for some reason doesn't seem to have been considered for use in extending the range of LRMP aircraft. What method was used, my reading of it is that the tanker trailed a hose (with a drogue to prevent wild movements) and the receiving aircraft caught this with a...
    • PMN1
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    • anti-submarine warfare cold war great britain in-flight refueling in-flight refueling tanker interwar period luftwaffe maritime patrol maritime patrol aircraft pacific ocean theater raf bomber command royal air force tanker aircraft third reich united states united states army air corps united states army air forces united states navy v/stol aircraft world war ii
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  18. hesham

    Yokosuka P1Y Ginga ("Frances") Variants and Projects

    My dear lark, for the Yokosuka Tenga it was a really project to japanese,see also; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_jet_aircraft
    • hesham
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    • axis powers empire of japan imperial japanese navy imperial japanese navy air service pacific ocean theater world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
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