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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:34 pm 
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I was looking through Rob's list of corsair losses - what happened to the VMF-422?? they lost a whole slew of planes on January 25 1944 - I assume a transport ship or carrier sank with the planes?? Storm? etc?

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Wrong-o, Tom-O,
They just plain got lost and crashed one by one althought
one guy figured out their nav error and made it.

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Thanks - bummer :cry: At least one guy made it to land

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