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  1. T. A. Gardner

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    What? No takers?
     
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    That's the one. Lt Dewayne Francis and his observer Lt. Martin of the 5th Armored division shot down a Fiesler Storch using their .45 cal pistols in late April 1945. The aircraft was named "Miss Me," an L-4B Piper Cub.
    Your turn TA152
     
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    Can I just interject here to say that I found this most interesting : trivia maybe, but I'd never heard of this incident until now.... [​IMG]
     
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    Name the first allied bomber to bomb Berlin in WWII.
     
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    Vickers Wellington Mk I?
     
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    No cigar for Gordon :mad:
     
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    Whitley ?
     
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    Hint: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
     
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    Raquel ?[spelling]
     
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    No, I know it is difficult and demeaning but think of your allies south of the channel.
     
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    Dailliere in Farman 223.4 named Jules Verne.

    [​IMG]
     
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    It was Centre NC 223.4 number 2 civil regester F-ARIN named Jules Verne{/i] that performed that feat on the night of June 7 - 8 1940. The crew flew a 13.5 hour mission up the Channel, across Denmark to Berlin taking off Bordeaux - Merignac and landing back at Paris - Orly. They dropped 4,409 lbs of bombs on the mission.
     
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    If you posted 18 mins. earlier you would be a winner. Maybe I should take off an hour since you are in the mountain time zone. [​IMG]
     
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    T. A. you can go if you want to. I don't have a good question anyway.
     
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    Ok:

    What was the furthest airborne / parachute assault in terms of distance flown from base in WW 2? Bonus points for distance flown.
     
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    What?!! No takers? Not even the Red Baron who wrote a thesis on parachute unit operations in WW 2?!!
     
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    Landings in North Africa during Torch by 2/509 Para Bn.

    From Cornwall in the UK to Oran.
     
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    We have a winner! Col. Raff's parachute battalion was flown over 1500 miles from England to le Bains airfield in Algeria for the drop. The C-47's were to land on the airfield after its capture lacking the range to return to friendly territory. In practice the operation was a conplete disaster but, it still marks the furthest orgainzed large parachute drop of WW II.
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