Re: Guadalcanal, P-400 lost on 30/08/1942
Thank you for your answers RSwank and Laurent
Yet the different sources I consult,leave more questions than they provide answers.
Versions:
1)Six P-400 riddled beyon repair (in 11 B.Group and the 67° F.Sq in the battle for Guadalcanal)
nothing about the fate of the F4F?
2)3 F4F are written of due to battle damage (in Air War Pacific chronology American's Air War against Japan in East Asia....)
nothing about the "damage" of the P-400!
3)"Six P-400s so damaged that one of them would be immediately reformed to serve as spare parts" (Bernard Baesa).
the other five reformed later? which corroborates version 1??
and "quid" of the damage of the F4F of Willis S.Lees(VMF 223).....is one of the 3 Scrapped (version 2)??
"Cherry on the Cake"
It seems that we don't known the Serials of the four P-400 shot down that the 3 versions agree to report!
SO?
Michel
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