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Avenger Radar
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Allen a mistake was made and tried to re textured the wrong texture.There are 2 radars and textured the wrong one.
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November 26-27,1943.
This was the first organized night interception of Japanese bombers.
An Avenger with radar and 2 Hellcats took off from Enterprise's deck to intercept aircraft spotted on Enterprise's radar.Her radar was to vector the Avenger close enough for it's radar to pick them up.The Avenger finally got close enough to pickup the enemy planes thanks to the ships directions.The Hellcats got separated during the flight seeing exhaust from the enemy planes but couldn't catch them.The Avenger was alone and his radar operator guided him in.At 1200 ft the first Betty was sighted and the pilot went to shoot it down,the 2 wing guns hit the Japanese plane and as he went under it the gunner in the ball turret opened fire,Scratch 1.At 500 ft another was spotted and he attacked again with his wing guns,Scratch 2.After seeing the planes the 2 Hellcats headed for them and rejoined.So the first kills at night were actually by an Avenger.
These 3 pilots had practiced these tactics for awhile and said they were ready.One of the Hellcat pilots was, MOH winner,Butch O'Hare.
Hope you enjoyed a little history.
This mission is working on and several other night missions will be done.
Hiede
This was the first organized night interception of Japanese bombers.
An Avenger with radar and 2 Hellcats took off from Enterprise's deck to intercept aircraft spotted on Enterprise's radar.Her radar was to vector the Avenger close enough for it's radar to pick them up.The Avenger finally got close enough to pickup the enemy planes thanks to the ships directions.The Hellcats got separated during the flight seeing exhaust from the enemy planes but couldn't catch them.The Avenger was alone and his radar operator guided him in.At 1200 ft the first Betty was sighted and the pilot went to shoot it down,the 2 wing guns hit the Japanese plane and as he went under it the gunner in the ball turret opened fire,Scratch 1.At 500 ft another was spotted and he attacked again with his wing guns,Scratch 2.After seeing the planes the 2 Hellcats headed for them and rejoined.So the first kills at night were actually by an Avenger.
These 3 pilots had practiced these tactics for awhile and said they were ready.One of the Hellcat pilots was, MOH winner,Butch O'Hare.
Hope you enjoyed a little history.
This mission is working on and several other night missions will be done.
Hiede
Avengers as nightfighters, very interesting!
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Skylane
At that time the Hellcats didn't have radar because all the components were to big to fit in the plane.The Avenger had radar because it was big enough for the components and was just supposed to guide the Hellcats to the target.
By the end of the war everything was downsized and the Hellcat and Corsair were able to have radar also.
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Fibber
He has that site and a couple more.He also has the book"The Big E" which gives some great info on missions.
As for the Avenger Radar-There's been almost 500 views and only 3 people made comments.If you are interested in something someone is working on,say something to let them know.People today just expect things to be done and don't say thank you.The older members do,but the newer ones just sit on their hands or twittle their thumbs but will complain if they don't get it or have problems with it.
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Heide; You are right on that. Silence is actually a not interested vote. I tend to not interfere as I do not have the necessary skills , or programs, on this box, to actively contribute and figure I would just be unnecessary clutter on the bandwidth. I am ALWAYS amazed by those who do and what they do with it.