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                        WWII historians...help!!

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                        bondoman
                        • Member since
                          March 2007
                        • From: Carmel, CA
                        Posted by bondoman on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:49 PM
                         jody_c wrote:
                        Thank you folks for all the info. I really do appreciate it. So in conclusion, It was a hellcat, on MOST IMPORTANTLY, the CV10 USS Yorktown ? BUT this didn't occur durring Midway, right ?
                        No, at Midway this ship was still under construction.
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                        stikpusher
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                          July 2004
                        • From: Sonora Desert
                        Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:44 PM

                        If you look on this link, at 3:05 the clip appears to be the same. The deck number is 10, USS Yorktown. And it is an F6F.

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcl9XkZOrUU

                         

                        F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

                        U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

                        N is for NO SURVIVORS...

                               - Plankton

                        LSM

                         

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                        jody_c
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                          April 2009
                        Posted by jody_c on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:42 PM
                        Thank you folks for all the info. I really do appreciate it. So in conclusion, It was a hellcat, on MOST IMPORTANTLY, the CV10 USS Yorktown ? BUT this didn't occur durring Midway, right ?
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                        ddp59
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                          April 2005
                        Posted by ddp59 on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:11 PM
                        jody, the canopy is wrong for a corsair but right for a hellcat.
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                        bondoman
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                          March 2007
                        • From: Carmel, CA
                        Posted by bondoman on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:33 AM

                        Thanks for the recollection, Manny. Looking back at those Verlinden Dios is really humbling.

                        Here's Lewis Pruneau with the dio.

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 26, 2009 10:38 PM
                         jody_c wrote:
                        I swear looking at the video, it looked like a F4 corsair, and I know the actual clip was used in the movie Midway. By the way..where can I find the dio of Lewis Preneu, any links?
                        The Hellcat had a slight "gull wing" when viewed from the front but it was a Hellcat for sure...there are other clips showing crack-ups that do involve Corsairs...the dio from Lewis was in an old issue of FSM---I'll see if I can dig up the pic...
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                        subfixer
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                          March 2004
                        • From: Spartanburg, SC
                        Posted by subfixer on Monday, October 26, 2009 9:48 PM
                        The movie stinks for sure, but I was there when they filmed it so I cut it a little slack.

                        I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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                        bondoman
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                        • From: Carmel, CA
                        Posted by bondoman on Monday, October 26, 2009 9:42 PM
                         ddp59 wrote:
                        that wasn't a corsair but a f6f hellcat. that wasn't from battle of midway ...the aircraft carrier is most likely an essex class carrier.
                        One more reason why that movie stinks.
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                        bondoman
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                          March 2007
                        • From: Carmel, CA
                        Posted by bondoman on Monday, October 26, 2009 9:02 PM

                        CV-10 Yorktown. She was commissioned in 1943, sailed from Pearl Harbor on 8/22/43 in first combat sortie.

                        Trumpeter in 1/350:

                        http://hsfeatures.com/yorktownrc_1.htm

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                        jody_c
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                          April 2009
                        Posted by jody_c on Monday, October 26, 2009 8:56 PM
                        Well that's what I'm looking to do, I wanted to model the ship with the crashed aircraft on the deck. That's why I was wondering if anybody knew exactly what ship it was. I swear looking at the video, it looked like a F4 corsair, and I know the actual clip was used in the movie Midway. By the way..where can I find the dio of Lewis Preneu, any links?
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 26, 2009 8:09 PM
                         ddp59 wrote:
                        that wasn't a corsair but a f6f hellcat. that wasn't from battle of midway but i think from the mariannas turkey shoot(june 1944) in which 300+ japanese aircraft(land & naval) were destroyed. the aircraft carrier is most likely an essex class carrier.
                        Ditto...a diorama in 32nd scale was actually made of that incident by Master Modeler Lewis Preneau...
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                        ddp59
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                          April 2005
                        Posted by ddp59 on Monday, October 26, 2009 8:02 PM
                        that wasn't a corsair but a f6f hellcat. that wasn't from battle of midway but i think from the mariannas turkey shoot(june 1944) in which 300+ japanese aircraft(land & naval) were destroyed. the aircraft carrier is most likely an essex class carrier.
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                        onyxman
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                          December 2005
                        • From: Seattle, Colorado
                        Posted by onyxman on Monday, October 26, 2009 8:00 PM
                        Whatever carrier it was, it wasn't at Midway.  There were no Corsairs at Midway. 
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                        jody_c
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                          April 2009
                        WWII historians...help!!
                        Posted by jody_c on Monday, October 26, 2009 7:43 PM
                        I have a strange question. For years I have seen a clip from WWII battle of Midway. It is of a Corsair coming in for a landing on an aircraft carrier, hitting the superstructure, crashing, and splitting in half just behind the pilot. The pilot lived and actually walked away. The scene was in the 1970's movie "Midway" with Charlton Heston. My question is..What aircraft carrier did that happen on ??? I can find the clip on the internet, but never a description on the aircraft carrier, the pilot or anything. I suppose I could try to get the movie, but I figured somebody in here might just have the answer. HELP !!!
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