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- From: jac54@cas.org
- Subject: Re: Worst Allied WW2 Fighters
- Message-ID: <Bzs8Ju.Kz2@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:19:06 GMT
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- From jac54@cas.org
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- In article <Bzq304.4yu@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> you write:
- >
- >Wasn't it Robert Stanford Tuck who had the day off when his
- >squadron intercepted an Italian force consisting of slow bombers
- >and Fiat biplanes? This was at the height of the Battle of Bri-
- >tain. The italians were brave but the biplanes didn't do too well
- >against Hurricanes.
- >
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- According to Tucks biography (I think it was "Fly for Your
- Life") this was the case. The British press, and the
- Daily Express in particular, seemed to think he was in the
- air that day and attributed a lot of disparaging remarks
- about the Italians to him that he never made and that he
- considered unjustifiable in the light of the reports of the
- rest of his command. His pilots were impressed with the
- manoeuvrability of the Fiat and the skill of the pilots
- in handling in it. Tuck never did get the affair cleared up.
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- Alec Chambers
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