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| Which of these aircraft achieved the first US Navy air to air kill in WWII? |
| F2A Buffalo |
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16% |
[ 7 ] |
| F3F Biplane |
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16% |
[ 7 ] |
| F4F Wildcat |
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23% |
[ 10 ] |
| SBD Dauntless |
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16% |
[ 7 ] |
| PBY Catalina |
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9% |
[ 4 ] |
| SOC Seagull |
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16% |
[ 7 ] |
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| Total Votes : 42 |
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This poll will end on January 31st, 2007 so if you have not yet voted, dont miss your chance, get your vote in now!! 
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 Fri Jan 26 14:03:26 2007 |
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I voted for the SBD, not sure why, but I have reason to believe
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| Thu Feb 1 22:28:06 2007 |
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oops missed it by a day, and didnt see page 2 or 3 
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| Thu Feb 1 22:31:49 2007 |
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That is ok Falcon! The answer for this poll resided on the forum the entire time!
You can see the answer by going to the following link...
http://vnfawing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=23394#23394
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| Fri Feb 2 0:43:47 2007 |
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Dec 10th? lol. Darn Squids always slackin off lol. Never thought it would have been so late. I figured a PBY shot one down in self defence during a pre or post Pearl attack patrol.
Do you have anymore info on the incident?
BTW I THINK I was the first to vote PBY lol.
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| Sat Feb 3 16:10:44 2007 |
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Kap,
Yes you were indeed the first one to vote PBy and as such the official winner of the Poll! Congrats! 
Unfortunately I do not have any additional data, though I am sure plenty exists on the web... Somewhere!
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| Sat Feb 3 20:58:31 2007 |
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| Quote: | | While flying to safety during the raid on Cavite, Lieutenant Harmon T. Utter's PBY (VP 101) is attacked by three Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 0 carrier fighters (ZERO) (3rd Kokutai); Chief Boatswain Earl D. Payne, Utter's bow gunner, shoots down one, thus scoring the U.S. Navy's first verifiable air-to-air "kill" of a Japanese plane in the Pacific War. Utter, as a commander, will later coordinate the carrier air strikes that lead to the destruction of Japanese battleship Yamato (see 7 April 1945). |
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1941.html
Bout all I found on it.
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| Sat Feb 3 22:50:09 2007 |
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Excellent job Kap! I knew you would dig it out...
Wow, how would you like to be known for allowing a PBY to shoot you down to be the first air loss to the USN, when you were in a Zero at the height of Japanese airpower! 
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| Sat Feb 3 22:52:48 2007 |
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Yeah that poor guy really got "Munson'd" ROFL.
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