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  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to ShortsBelfast's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    The major difference is that the Finns had Finnish-American engineers and pilots checking out the quality of the aircraft that Brewster...
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to alspug's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    Part of that was a frontier spirit that was common the remainder was the training that included jungle training.
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to Sekhmet_D's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    Even during OTL's Malaya and Singapore fighting, the Aussies gave the Japanese the hardest time, especially during the Gemas ambush and...
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to JWilly48519's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    And "bushido spirit".
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to Cryhavoc101's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    I didn't think that the Flying Tigers started combat ops until late Dec 1941? So not sure they were in a position to tell anything to...
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to Ramp-Rat's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    Reading the latest post, both the British and Japanese have a problem, too many aircraft and not enough fully developed airfields. The...
  • Fatboy Coxy replied to the thread Malaya What If.
    and as well as Hi Errolwi, Sekhmet_D and alspug, the FAA are aware of the deficiencies of the Buffalo as a Naval fighter, but these...
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to alspug's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    The Buffalo's the RAF had from what I remember had literally second hand engines and instead of 1200hp they had like 1,000hp. In hot and...
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to Sekhmet_D's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    They should have done what the Finns did. Soup the engines up.
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to Errolwi's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    I wonder how long the easier to remove items last when the lack of climb rate starts to tell. OTL they stripped guns, ammo load etc to...
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to Sekhmet_D's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    Trained on a carrier, no available carrier for assignation post training.
  • Fatboy Coxy replied to the thread Malaya What If.
    and Hi JWilly48519 and Admiral Jellicoe, AJ is quite right, (hey, AJ, that has a nice ring to it, don't you think Jelly, oh, so does...
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to Admiral Jellicoe's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    They trained up on Hermes I think before she went for refit. ref post #1276
  • Fatboy Coxy reacted to JWilly48519's post in the thread Malaya What If with Like Like.
    How were they "carrier-operationally trained" without a carrier? I'm wondering how a pilot might be considered so qualified if they've...
  • Fatboy Coxy replied to the thread Malaya What If.
    and Hi LoftonHenderson and FriendlyGhost, yes as FriendlyGhost says, its aircraft, not pilots, of which there would be a few more...
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