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Originally Posted by JRock
im a noob flying a 109. it looks like star wars. totally ridiculous.  |
Hi JRock
As others said, it may seem ridiculous, but then again, it may only seem that way because of your preconceived notion of what it looked like
Consider that Puff in Vietnam looked like a neon tube stretching from the plane to the ground
At least, according to LT Fred Downs jr it did
I think that a lot of the finer details have been lost to us, considering the sights of the times. I was looking in a catalog at a print of a US Aircraft carrier being bracketed by Japanese shells the other day, and it looked so strange- these pastel colors were tinting the enormous water columns from the near misses
Well, what I didn't realize was that the IJN was using
dye packs to help gunners recognize their near misses and differentiate them from another gunner's. What seemed completely unreal had a solid basis in fact