a real pics of ww2 air fights

[InfiniteStates]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

If you keep giving lip you will get banished to http://forums.eu.atari.com/forumdisplay.php?f=684

Nooooooooo....I mean "hai!"

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

Nooooooooo....I mean "hai!"

Now fetch me some warm saki and lotus petals, I am going kamikazi on some bunkers to unlock some armaments and may be some time

[olife]

Originally Posted by Dubbedinenglish

Not quite in battle,, but TIME has these amazing shots (taken from a gunner in flight)

very nice sbd!!!

[Reddisback]

Originally Posted by winny

Seeing those pics brings two words to mind..

F**k that...

I don't think I could have done it. It makes you realise how scary it must have been seeing stuff like that on a daily basis.

At least in IL-2 nobody ever dies! Amazing how they all always get out AND the chute opens..

Not Exactly true there, mate. I have shot down several Bombers/ Fighters and was shot down several times my self, were the Aircraft just simply fell down to mother Earth with out Parachutes. wich means that the crew have been killed. You can let your crew Bail out in moments like these by hittin' start and select ''Bail out''. Then your crew gets out the plane.

[winny]

Originally Posted by Reddisback

Not Exactly true there, mate. I have shot down several Bombers/ Fighters and was shot down several times my self, were the Aircraft just simply fell down to mother Earth with out Parachutes. wich means that the crew have been killed. You can let your crew Bail out in moments like these by hittin' start and select ''Bail out''. Then your crew gets out the plane.

Is there a "f**k the crew, I'm outta here" button too? I'd use that.

[Reddisback]

Originally Posted by stealth finger

If I was in WW2 I think I would much prefer to be a pilot over a foot soldier or in a tank.

Lets take a Tank for example: as a tank Expert and Historian, I know and have Records of Several M4 Sherman Crews who actually Bailed out in whats know in Tank Bissniss as ''The Exit to Hell''

The Emergency Exits on the M4 sherman ( I beleive all versions of it) are:
Driver: Drivers Hatch witch is the same size as your midle waist.
Co-Driver: Same kind of Hatch as Driver
Comander: that Lucky B*sterd got to open up the Hatch and Jump out and Roll of the Tank.
Gunner: Actually Had to Wait after the Commander had left, or if the Commander is Killed, Push the Commander out, so that the Gunner could leave the tank.
Now, Loader: All in all, it is the Loader who has the ''Best'' way of Leaving the Tank, on the Loaders possition in the M4 Sherman, the Loader actually stands on-top of his Excape Hatch. It is an emgency door inside the Shermans Floor.

I've spoken to meny Sherman' crew and they still coulden't beleive that someone who had to be the size of a lepracon could leave the tank trough a Hatch that small.

Did you knew why the Germans actually called the Sherman tank the ''Ronson'' or ''TommieCooker'' ? Because the Crew of a Sherman had only 10 to 12 SECONDS to Bail out the Tank! Later variants of Shermans gave the crew 16 SECONDS to bail out because of their Wet ammo Storage.

So it seems that the Sherman Litteratly earns it name for ''Ronson''
'Cause it allway's Lights!

[haitch40]

Originally Posted by Dubbedinenglish

Not quite in battle,, but TIME has these amazing shots (taken from a gunner in flight)

nice i love those pics
btw the sbd dauntless was one of the best dive bombers of the war