"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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"JJ McIntyre" wrote in message
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The experience of the Navy when it first seriously acquired and
prosecuted
the clandestine electronic surveillance mission along the China Coast
and
in
the Black Sea beginning in 1950 and extending through the service life
of
the P4M-1Q in 1959 is illustrative. We were damn glad to have forward
and
aft twin .50 mounts on the aircraft, despite several operational losses
to
hostile fire on the Pacific side. By the time the P4M was supplanted by
the
A3D-1Q(EA-3) and then the WV's (EC121) a decade later, it was indeed a
new
ballgame. But in the process of getting there, those of us who did the
deeds by the dark of the moon were grateful as hell we had what we had!

I was at Iwakuni Japan in the 57/58 time period when a sqdn of P4M's were
there and there was a lot of talk when one of them returned from a mission
with a bunch of holes in it.

Leanne