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Laurel Green said:
Rare to see photos of this. 1,500 aircraft planned for production, as a 'stop gap' in case of delays to B-29 Superfortress deliveries. About 120 actually constructed, and none left anywhere in the world now. First entered service January 1945, first combat missions in May 1945, and officially retired, after the Japanese surrendered, in late August 1945. Almost entirely erased from history, too, so brief was their service period. The programme was cancelled in the September, and production finally halted in October 1945. Many of them were flown straight from the factory to be scrapped, and those that were not complete were scrapped on the production line. By 1949 they were all gone, not a single example survived the cutters' yard to be preserved.
yellowjack said:
Laurel Green said:
Rare to see photos of this. 1,500 aircraft planned for production, as a 'stop gap' in case of delays to B-29 Superfortress deliveries. About 120 actually constructed, and none left anywhere in the world now. First entered service January 1945, first combat missions in May 1945, and officially retired, after the Japanese surrendered, in late August 1945. Almost entirely erased from history, too, so brief was their service period. The programme was cancelled in the September, and production finally halted in October 1945. Many of them were flown straight from the factory to be scrapped, and those that were not complete were scrapped on the production line. By 1949 they were all gone, not a single example survived the cutters' yard to be preserved.
Blib said:
Blimey. That's far larger than I had imagined WWI subs to be.
The remains of one still lie off the Kent coast, near Hoo.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10530074/Histor...
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