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kyrodus
quando me referi ao P51 não foi por causa do filme. Foi porque através do tradutor tabajara, ja tinha visto aqui escrito pelo Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, Chief of Staff neste site abaixo:
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timelin ... aking.html
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When you were equipped with that P-51, you then began to focus on this bomber escort mission. In June of 1944, the Tuskegee Airmen scored kills while flying the first of a series of 200 bomber escort missions over which you became known as the Red Tail Devils. On the initial mission, Colonel Davis led 39 airmen in escorting B-24s to Munich, Germany. You were attacked en route by more than 100 German fighters, and despite fighting outnumbered, the Red Tails destroyed five Me-109s and damaged a sixth.
On the 25th of June in 1944, Capt. Joe Elsbury led the Tuskegee Airmen in sinking a German destroyer in the Gulf of Venice, sinking it with machine gun fire -- a rare feat. You're looking at a guy standing up here who got shot down in Vietnam trying to destroy a gun-site with machine gun fire. So I know that a well-armed ship can give far better than it can take. It took a great amount of courage for you to press the attack in the face of all that. Later, Joe Elsbury would shoot down three German fighters on a single mission.
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Eu havia deduzido que como eles já voavam P51 desde um mês antes eles deviam estar voando o mesmo tipo de avião quando atacaram o destróier. E o filme reforçava isso.
Mas você tem razão eles afundaram o bruto com P47. No site oficial traz até a relação dos aviões abatidos , o nome de cada piloto e o avião que usavam. Eles derrubaram BF 109 até com P40 se entendi direito.
http://tuskegeeairmen.org/pages/2/index.htm
No site aparece como sendo o Lt Gwynne Pierson e o Cap Wendell Pruitt voando P47 que atacaram e afundaram o destróier italiano com bandeira alemã.