[ARC5] [Milsurplus] History of the GO-series of USN

[Robert Eleazer]

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  From: Glen Zook 
  To: Mike Everette ; Robert Eleazer ; arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 7:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] History of the GO-series of USN


  Somewhere in the "Doomed" book there are some references to the P-36 although most of the pursuit aircraft were P-35 or P-40.  There is a reference at the following URL:




  http://tbo.wikidot.com/p-36







  Down in the P-36G section there is a notation about the aircraft being sent to the Philippines prior to 1942 even though they were obsolete.  There are also several notations in the "Doomed" book about B-18 aircraft being used.





  Glen, K9STH 


  Website: http://k9sth.net




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  From: Mike Everette <radiocompass at yahoo.com>
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  "Doomed at the Start" is an excellent book -- read it when it first came out; as is the follow-on, "December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor."  Another very good book, although published in the 1960s, and not well footnoted, is "The Ragged, Rugged Warriors" by Martin Caiden. 


  If you can find it, the classic work is from the early fifties:  "They Fought With What They Had."  Wish I could remember the author's name but it escapes me at the moment.  Seems that this book was fairly common in USAF base libraries but apparently may have been purged from some a few years ago; I've seen used copies on line and just about every one is from some AFB or other. 


  The B-17s started deploying to the PI during the summer of 1941.  It is my theory that they may have ultimately been sent on to China, had war not broken out when it did.  The B-17 did not have the range to strike Japan from the Philippines and return, but could have done so from Chinese bases.


  I don't think there were any P-36 fighters in the PI, but P-40s had been supplied during 1941.  The US had conveyed the P-26s and some of the B-10s to the Philippine Army only a few months before war commenced.


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