The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Battle of Imjin River/Kapyong (4/22/51)

Thanks for the article and photos on the Vickers MG.

Have to admit...WW-1 for me is the airplanes...find the ground conflict too insane and gruesome.

SE5 A

I guess the SE5 was to far allong in production..or the Brits were to stupid to figure on a syncronized twin machine gun like the German fighters.
So they mounted a Lewis gun on a rail..with a drum magazine..which the pilot had to remove and install in battle..and fly the plane too ....go figure.
The SE5 did have a Vickers machine gun mounted outboard portside with a belt feed magazine later on in service.

The SPAD XIIIc.i and Eddie Rickenbacker, top American ace of WW I with 26 victories, are inseparable in aviation lore. The colors on the Museum’s replica are those used by Rickenbacker when he commanded the 94th or “Hat in the Ring” Squadron. The XIIIc.i was tricky to handle at low speed but proved a fast, strong and stable gun platform.

Specifications: span 26 ft. 11 in.; length 20 ft. 8 in.; takeoff weight 1807 lbs.; engine 200-235 hp. Hispano-Suiza water-cooled V-8 (original); 180 hp. Lycoming air-cooled flat four (representation); maximum speed 138 mph. Armament two Vickers .303 cal. machine guns.

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My oldest brother, clearing his head of the duties of a Ford Motor VP, built and flew RC planes.

He was out with his Spad and an elderly man in tears identified the plane from the markings as one he had flown.

This was in the seventies, and I've seen the b&w photos of the day's events.

The above plane has two Vickers guns, perhaps above the cowl, synchronized.

I always thought this was a good-looking print:

Hi Phil

Thanks for sharing about your brother...it is so cool to meet history like that.

Have had some which just happened out of the blue.

Was chatting with a couple from Virginia in the gallery at Old Faithfull in Yellowstone.
As others sat around us they must have been listening in...
An man spoke up with his aged mother..."I'm Navy...I served on USS Hancock "

CV-19.. I answered....Have a video of our families destroyer which sailed with Hancocks battle group in the 50's.
Got his address and E-mail...went away amazed..what are the odds that you would meet someone ..and have something so personal for them...in such a far away place.

Shift:

Have not studied much on WW-1..know about it..but not as intense as WW-2.
It must have been freezing cold flying those planes...man O man were they guttsy....

But...the guy's who went up in those observation ballons with parachutes...

Darwin Award candidates?

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