Years ago I talked with a WWII vet who flew P61s. It was toward the end of the was where they flew against some of the Kamakazi Betty bombers. Since they owned the night they would come up from a lower altitude and fly under the Betty just short of their bomb bay. They’d raise those .50s to max elevation and fire a long burst. Cut the Betty in half. Of course the pilots had to make a drastic bank left or right while dropping elevation. Made for some exciting times.
Looks like a porcupine!
Wow, I didn’t know we had that many of those super birds!
My understanding is that photo was the last of them, at Beale, AFB, out here in California, before they were taken out of service.
They built 32 of them, and before that 13 of the similar looking A12 model.
Crawling potato?
