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What kind of twin engined monoplane would spray a smoke curtain for ground troops in the USA of 1940 ? | What kind of twin engined monoplane would spray a smoke curtain for ground troops in the USA of 1940 ?<br> | ||
Are they the same aircrafts seen in [[Buck Privates]] ? | |||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034000/ Parachute Battalion at IMDb] | * [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034000/ Parachute Battalion at IMDb] | ||
Revision as of 15:46, 5 January 2014
Movie (1941)
Starring:
Robert Preston (Donald Morse)
Nancy Kelly (Kit Richards)
Edmond O'Brien (Bill Burke)
Harry Carey (Bill Richards)
Three young men enlist in the US Army and are sent to Fort Benning, for training as parachute infantry. Of course, their military istruction will be mixed with a love affair.
Unidentified Aircraft
Probably North American T-6s.
Unidentified Aircraft
Elias NBS-3 or Curtiss NBS-4; both, just tested but not ordered by USAAC, were biplanes with box-like biplane tails and are of similar shape.
Martin NBS-1
Perhaps the same aircraft. Archive footage used as instructional material to trace the experiment of 1930 about mass parachuting.
Standard J-1
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny
Douglas B-18A Digby I
Douglas C-33
Ground instructional airframe (tailless).
North American O-47
Unidentified Aircraft
What kind of twin engined monoplane would spray a smoke curtain for ground troops in the USA of 1940 ?
Are they the same aircrafts seen in Buck Privates ?
And what is this horizontal stabilizer at the foreground ?
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