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Most people do not know much about the Japanese assault on Dutch Harbor.\u00a0 The Japanese did little real damage to Dutch Harbor, but they made a mistake that would cost them dearly.\u00a0 In 1942 the U.S. has no fighter capable of outmaneuvering a Zero.\u00a0 One Japanese fighter pilot was so determined to kill Americans that he stayed behind to finish off an American PBY.\u00a0 His name was Flight Petty Officer Tadoyoshi Koga.\u00a0 He even stayed around after the PBY had splashed into the ocean to be sure.\u00a0 One survivor of that crash, Aviation Machinist\u2019s Mate W. H. Rawls crawled out of the burning wreckage and paddled away in a life raft.\u00a0 Koga circled the life raft and machine-gunned Rawls to death.\u00a0 But, Rawls who had been the blister gunner on the PBY had put one machine gun bullet into Koga\u2019s plane.\u00a0 Koga did not realize he had been hit, but that one bullet had severed the oil return line resulting in Koga\u2019s oil pressure gage reading zero.\u00a0 (The engine was actually unharmed).\u00a0 Koga decided to radio for help and make a forced landing on nearby Akutan Island.\u00a0 His landing gear caught in the muskeg and flipped the plane over breaking Koga\u2019s neck.\u00a0 One month later another PBY spotted the wreckage.\u00a0 The plane was virtually intact.\u00a0 As a result, the U.S. was able to obtain an intact Japanese Zero (ABFM-2 Zeke).\u00a0 It was quickly dismantled and shipped back to the U.S.\u00a0 American engineers learned a great deal from this aircraft and there was a myth that the Zero was used to develop the Navy F6F Hellcat.\u00a0 That, like most myths, is not true.\u00a0 The Hellcat was already being test flown before the U.S. got their hands on the Japanese Zero.\u00a0 But it is certainly true that the loss of this aircraft made it much easier for American engineers to design planes that were very effective against the Japanese Zero.<\/p>\n

\u00a0(This information is well documented in a great book:\u00a0 \u201cThe Thousand Mile War\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u00a0In August of 1944, three B29\u2019s were forced to land in Russia.\u00a0 Stalin immediately seized the opportunity to steal our design.\u00a0 They tried to replicate the B29 down to the last bolt.\u00a0 It was only marginally successful, since Russia apparently could not replication the superb manufacturing tolerances required to produce a B29.\u00a0 They did built about 850 TU-4s and they definitely learned a lot from these \u201ccaptured\u201d B29s.<\/p>\n

\u00a0now the United States has lost a state of the art stealth drone.\u00a0 Incredibly, if this article is accurate, Obama refused to authorize a mission to either retrieve the drone or at least destroy it.\u00a0 If that is true, that Obama may have made a mistake far more serious than the loss of the Japanese Zero or the B29.\u00a0 The United States is the only country on earth that can fly a bomber into a heavily defended area and destroy the air defense system.\u00a0 This is priceless technology.\u00a0 I am sure that this drone will be studied extensively by Iran, China and Russia and the knowledge they gain has the potential to be devastating. \u00a0\u00a0It will not only help them develop air defense systems that can detect stealth aircraft, it will help them develop their own stealth technology to use against us.\u00a0 I sure hope the mission was worth the risk of such an important aircraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0http:\/\/floppingaces.net\/2011\/12\/08\/obama-rejected-plans-to-retrieve-fallen-drone-in-iran\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0I sometimes wonder how we will ever be able to repair the damage done by this na\u00efve, incompetent; radical we foolishly elected to be our Commander in Chief.\u00a0 It is embarrassing to see the President of the United States naively ask Iran to give us back our drone as if he honestly expects this to happen.\u00a0 Please!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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