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I thought you meant the world famous Black Cats Display Team from the Royal Navy then, not some Sqn that no-one's heard of from the USN.
 
SupportiveCivvy said:
"Black Cats" - weren't they PBY-5A Catalina convoy raiders?
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Indeed they were, VS-23 orignal desigantion was VP-23 and they were a PBY-5 Catalina unit in the Pacific from 1942 - 1944. The unit got its name from the overall matt black paint job on the aircraft and the fact that they did most of thier work at night, which involved attacking any Jap ship or sub they found by use of radar (for the majority of the war, this was an US built copy of the British ASV Mk II Radar). Totally kicked the crap out of the Jap merchant fleet, along with the US Sub fleet's effort.
 
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sculthorpe said:
you don't give up ,do you?
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Calm down my colonial cousin! Im just sick of seeing American made films (IE: U571, what a crock of sh!t that is) that don't acknowledge that Britain had been involved in WW2 since the beginning and had had seven bells knocked out of her and was still standing. And even when the US came into the war in 1942, we still continued to punch above our weight.
 
The pair of you can calm down....

This is warfare history not fight club, lets keep it friendly in here please.:)
 
Downsizer said:
The pair of you can calm down....

This is warfare history not fight club, lets keep it friendly in here please.:)
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Of course you are right. When I posted that link I thought it might be of interest to some. I never intended for it to end up in a pi$$ing contest,which it seems to have done.DEF, I'll apologise for the rather smart a$$ed answer to you.Granted it only was about one part of the war effort. It wasn't intended to offend anyone or diminish the bravery of the Brit. military, or their commitment to win the war. In spite of what we think about it , it was a combined effort , and thank God we were the winners!
 
Dave-exfairy said:
Calm down my colonial cousin! Im just sick of seeing American made films (IE: U571, what a crock of sh!t that is) that don't acknowledge that Britain had been involved in WW2 since the beginning and had had seven bells knocked out of her and was still standing. And even when the US came into the war in 1942, we still continued to punch above our weight.
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In fact the film U571 actually does acknowledge the fact that the British were involved in the capture of Enigma from U-boats, as at the end of the film there is a dedication to all of the Allied sailors who had captured Enigma machines from U-boat's and listed the Warships which had done it and U-boats captured in order of capture. The US Navy did actually capture a U-boat with Engima and Codes intact (U-505) in 1944, and managed to salvage it (its now in a museum in Chicago). Where the British and Canadians who captured the other 12 (Royal navy =11 Royal Canadian navy = 1) sunk them as soon as we had got all of the codes and Enigma off. The film is totally Bo!!ocks, when it comes to the German Navy surface forces however, as no German surface ship operated in the Atlantic post early 1942.
 
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MAINJAFAD said:
In fact the film U571 actually does acknowledge the fact that the British were involved in the capture of Enigma from U-boats, as at the end of the film there is a dedication to all of the Allied sailors who had captured Enigma machines from U-boat's and listed the Warships which had done it and U-boats captured in order of capture. The US Navy did actually capture a U-boat with Engima and Codes intact (U-505) in 1944, and managed to salvage it (its now in a museum in Chicago). Where the British and Canadians who captured the other 12 (Royal navy =11 Royal Canadian navy = 1) sunk them as soon as we had got all of the codes and Enigma off. The film is totally Bo!!ocks, when it comes to the German Navy surface forces however, as no German surface ship operated in the Atlantic post early 1942.
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Thank you!
 
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