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Anyone watch 'Greyhound' with Tom Hanks yet? I'm watching it now.
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<blockquote data-quote="L8APEX" data-source="post: 16455312" data-attributes="member: 51947"><p>The SBD's (slow but deadly) keeping up with the Zeros in a dogfight and then taking out several with the 2 front .50s made me laugh. Even though the SBD could pull more Gs than the zero (9 vs 6) The A6M had a good <100mph faster top speed over the Dauntless (255mph vs 360+). They leaned quick not to try and turn with our dive bombers. </p><p>The only story I've heard like that was Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa, in the battle of the coral sea where he shot down two zeros in a SBD and cut the wing off a third Zero, with his own aircraft's wing for 3 kills. Both the ones that he got a quick bead on overshot after he flared the dive brakes and he was able to turn inside them, and the .50s at a close range do quick work on a wooden aricraft. (He was badass... in the battle of the Santa Cruz islands after transferred to a fighter squadron He got into a F4F and downed 7 enemy aircraft 2 "val" divebombers targeting Hornet and 5 "kates" going for Enterprise, ace in a day. He ended up with the Navy cross 3x and was nominated for medal of honor) </p><p>While the zero was stupid fast (compared to other early war fighters, like the SBD that was already outdated) and fairly nimble they would make a run on the SDB usually in a merge and avoid the top/ rear and turning with them, and speed off, line up and run again. Similar to what our F4s did when attacking Migs over Vietnam. Not suprisingly most of the air to air kills for the SBD came from the rear gunner and the twin .30s, especially when confused Japanese pilots dove on them mistaking them for F4Fs.</p><p></p><p>Sent from my Note9</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L8APEX, post: 16455312, member: 51947"] The SBD's (slow but deadly) keeping up with the Zeros in a dogfight and then taking out several with the 2 front .50s made me laugh. Even though the SBD could pull more Gs than the zero (9 vs 6) The A6M had a good <100mph faster top speed over the Dauntless (255mph vs 360+). They leaned quick not to try and turn with our dive bombers. The only story I've heard like that was Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa, in the battle of the coral sea where he shot down two zeros in a SBD and cut the wing off a third Zero, with his own aircraft's wing for 3 kills. Both the ones that he got a quick bead on overshot after he flared the dive brakes and he was able to turn inside them, and the .50s at a close range do quick work on a wooden aricraft. (He was badass... in the battle of the Santa Cruz islands after transferred to a fighter squadron He got into a F4F and downed 7 enemy aircraft 2 "val" divebombers targeting Hornet and 5 "kates" going for Enterprise, ace in a day. He ended up with the Navy cross 3x and was nominated for medal of honor) While the zero was stupid fast (compared to other early war fighters, like the SBD that was already outdated) and fairly nimble they would make a run on the SDB usually in a merge and avoid the top/ rear and turning with them, and speed off, line up and run again. Similar to what our F4s did when attacking Migs over Vietnam. Not suprisingly most of the air to air kills for the SBD came from the rear gunner and the twin .30s, especially when confused Japanese pilots dove on them mistaking them for F4Fs. Sent from my Note9 [/QUOTE]
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