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Amazing, you are endless when it comes to collecting Longines !!! I went to give a look at the Chrono24 model, and was amazed to read that these were primarily sold to the US, i.e. the Japanese army went to buy them there !
And I agree the price is decent (even though out of reach for me), definitely a taker for those who can !
Thanks again for this encyclopedic yet shared knowledge !
So close! And it got away.
A6M2-N Zero Rufe chased by a F6F Hellcat This clip shows a poor innocent...okay maybe we started that off wrong.... If you can imagine what it must have felt like to see an American Navy fighter plane and a really good one at that...literally raining bull...
I do own one. In fact I have two 😄
Maybe the way I wrote the replies or the article was confusing. I do own two of them out of the twenty known. One of the easy way to tell is with the Japanese writing on the back of the Weems which you saw. There is another way to tell, which is by the or...
Amazing, you are endless when it comes to collecting Longines !!! I went to give a look at the Chrono24 model, and was amazed to read that these were primarily sold to the US, i.e. the Japanese army went to buy them there !
And I agree the price is decent (even though out of reach for me), definitely a taker for those who can ! Thanks again for this encyclopedic yet shared knowledge !
Super interesting - also interesting to note that the Zeros, while superior at the beginning of the pacific war became comparatively worse as it dragged on, due to strained resources on Japan...
...due to poorer quality materials AND fewer materials! Also, I learned from the Dan Carling podcast, that the zeros were dragged out of the Mistubishi factory by oxen to the nearest airfield 20miles away! This is because the planes were too fragile to tr...
Took some pictures with the new Data Plate
For a Nakajima Built Zero A6M2 Model 21 Zeke. Serial 41565 or correctly 1565. Enter text ...
Scored another plane!
This is one of the rarest super heros in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Yokosuka D4Y1 was a beast of a plane. Faster than the one of the fastest planes in the Pacific Theater the Zero. There were two major versions of the D4Y. One was based on a German d...
