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To: Retain Mike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSm055a0394

B-26 former crews remember Midway.

That bombers stall speed was about the same as the maximum speed you could drop their mark 13 torpedoes.


5 posted on 06/06/2012 9:40:13 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

Now that is quite a point. In the four sources I read for the narrative I checked again and found no mention of that dilemma. I wonder now if that difficulty was even discussed? Maybe this was a case of Navy and Army speaking different languages?


28 posted on 06/06/2012 3:17:34 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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