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re: Saving Private Ryan gripe
Posted on 7/4/16 at 9:57 pm to tigerman03
Posted on 7/4/16 at 9:57 pm to tigerman03
Spielberg had P51's saving the day. They weren't used for close air support IRL because their liquid cooled engines were vulnerable to ground fire.
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Posted on 7/4/16 at 10:41 pm to Jim Rockford
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Spielberg had P51's saving the day. They weren't used for close air support IRL because their liquid cooled engines were vulnerable to ground fire.
The A-36 was a ground attack version of the P-51, used in North Africa and Europe for... you guessed it, "tank-busting."
I'm sure the average grunt on the ground would think they were the same thing since they came off the same lines stateside and looked identical.
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