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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message ... "JJ McIntyre" wrote in message ... 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 |
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