Which WWII aviation role would you take if given the opportunity?

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IL-2 SHTURMOVIK
TO GRIND NAZIS IN FLYING TANK RATATATATAT

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SBD Dauntless pilot during Midway

Search and rescue in a big flying boat

I'd like to fly Typhoons in ground attack missions and see what I destroy.

>>34407247
PBY Catalina tail gunner in the Pacific.

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Ground pounding in a Jug.

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Mosquito night fighter pilot. Fly during Op. Steinbock for that siq K/D

>>34407404
Doesn't matter, if you shoot up some bushes just claim it was 7 Tigers

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P-47 Thunderbolt
8x .50 cal is all you need

>>34407404
RIP Sherman tankers

>>34407247

Short Sunderland in RAF Coastal Command.

Nice island to base on, never have to deploy abroad.

God tier comfy plane.

Mostly just flying the seas chasing things that can't do much in return.

Quiet. Safe. Comfy.

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>>34407247
I'd want to take part in the great Marianas Turkey Shoot flying an F6F Hellcat.

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staying comfy over the Canadian prairies training Common Wealth pilots.

>>34407247
109 pilot in the East raping slav shitters.

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P-51 Mustang pilot gunning down Nips

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I want to fly a flying boat.

M O S Q U I T O
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>>34407247
One with a low casualty rate, but still flying in a combat role.

Something involving C-47s.

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>>34408645
This is why I think the N1K2 was the better plane than the Ki-84

Because it could actually take a hit and keep flying

>>34407247
Fighter.
Battle of Kuban. The finest hour for P-39 and original La-5s

>>34408392
Would be better to take your planefu to Europe, because P-51 got so very late to Pasific. Don't go cheating her with some fat jug.
>>34408645
>only two
Is that first one shooting rockets at nothing?
>>34408693
Did they have something so different in structure or protection?

Battle of Britain.

Unrelated, but my favorite planes of the war are P-39, P-61, and B-25.

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>>34408765
The first one is just shooting hoping for a hit since he was too far from my ally's plane they were both chasing. He probably saw me and knew he was dead so he fired out of desperation I assume.

>>34408828
How unhonorabru for him not to try some random manouvers if he saw you. Though I remember getting hit from a mile away few times.
Didn't really remember that guns made such dark smoke trails.

>>34408828
wtf was he blind?

>>34407247
I want to nuke the japs

>>34407247
fw190 freijagd ostfront

>>34408573
W O O D E N
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>>34407247
Ju88 with muh nazi buddies patrolling the norwegian fjords and coastline.
>basically 0 chance of getting shot down
>basically 0 chance of getting bombed and attacked
>norwegian babes

>>34409144
>In Mosquito attacking Berlin
>Fly just above the roof tops
>See a triggered Goering jumping up and down and having spasms of rage
>Flash him the V sign as you fly past

I wouldnt want to do it in an actual war but I would love to fly in a B-17 ball turret during peactime. Just for the experience. When I was a little kid I loved the movie "The Memphis Belle" and the scene where the guy is hanging on to the plane after getting the turret blown off always gave me insane feels. Otherwise I would want to fly a Spitfire in actual combat. But piloting a B-17 is close second. I got to tour one when I was like 7 and those things are amazing.

>>34407247
B-17 belly gunner with a raging erection erryday

>>34407325
Just remember, anon, if your wing/elevator gets even slightly damaged in a dive, you ded.

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Fuck navigating. Plus there's something to be said for home field advantage.

>>34409559
That goes for most planes getting hit while going in a dive. Though Dauntless pilots kept the canopies open during dives so they could get out a little quicker if needed.
If I wanted relative safety, then I could say being a TBF Avenger pilot during Operation Ten-Go during the attack on the Yamato.

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>>34407247
Bomber escort over Europe or muhreen Corsair pilot

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>>34407247
Either a Corsair or Hellcat pilot.

>>34407247
flying tigers

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>>34407438
>>34407448
Mah Nigga.

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>>34407247
Spit or Hurricane pilot during the Battle of Britain.

Or firebombing japs in B-29's.

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>>34410014
>>34408913
Same here

>>34407325
Hope you're happy with dying in the middle of wet-ass nowhere.

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>>34407247
spooky night fighter

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Swordfish, torpedoing the Bismarck.

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This.

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Coastal Command Short Sunderland patrolling for nasty Nazi U-Boats.

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>>34413864

MFW it my turn to do the dishes. :- (

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>>34413870

All done. Time for a nap.

So comfy.

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DRIVE IT ON UP LET'S CRUISE FOR A WHILE

LEAVE YOUR TROUBLES FAR BEHIND

>>34414274
>THIS

>>34414274
What is this?

Battle of Britain in a Spitfire.

I'm miserable every day knowing I won't die behind the stick of a Spitfire, diving on an He-111 over southern England.

>>34407247
pby flying boat antisub and search and reascue

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMV1iTVQbYs

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P-61 Black Widow

Nothing like a good ol' fashioned Midnight Bomber Hunt.

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>>34407247
>Which WWII aviation role would you take if given the opportunity?

Literally any. If I had to pick one I'd say a mudfighter pilot. Flying the sexiest plane ever while bombing nips sounds fun. Sometimes they didn't even bother retracting their landing gear.

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Jack of all trades, master of all.

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>>34419468

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>>34407247
>being a bomber in the RAF
Bombing Dresden must have been fucking amazing.

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>>34407247
GÖRING'S ON THE PHONE FROM FREIBURG
SAID WILLY DONE QUITE A JOB

HITLER'S ON THE PHONE FROM BERLIN
SAID I'M GONNA MAKE YOU A STAR

ME 262 PRINCE OF TURBOJET
JUNKERS JUMO 004

A BLAST FROM CLUSTERED R4M QUARTETS IN MY SNOUT
AND WATCH THE ENGLISH PLANES GO BURN

>>34414274
First rate reference.

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fire bombing Tokyo

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MAXIMUM DAKKA ACHIEVED

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>>34422903

I-15 pilot. June 22, 1941.

>>34422910
You want to die without even taking off?

>>34421312
There's a filmclip somewhere of one of those taking off and the engine nacelles are flexing the fkn wing trying to get 30 tons plus off the goddamn ground

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>>34407438

This

>the comfy feeling of being surrounded by a massive turbocharger/intercooler installation

>>34407290
*gets executed for coming home with unfired ammo*

recon and/or artillery spotter

the comfiest of military aircraft roles

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>>34424930
A Lancaster was capable of remarkable feats and they were asked to perform more than that.
Some very silly things were performed with them.
Some very brave guys didn't get to be old.

>>34424952
Any turbo hits and GTFO because you're riding in a bomb. Apparently.