Well this is a new one to me… [^o)] I just stumbled across this Wiki article. I am surprised that it is not more well known around these parts…
wow, thats a crazy story.
guess those pilots wouln’t’ve been much use against attacking Soviets if they couldnt even hit a lazy drone… [:^)]
For a minute I thought it was the background story for the movie “1942”.
That has been speculated…
A good story about the F-89. A Curtiss C-46 was towing a target. Four Scorpions circled around and lined up for runs at the target. Much to the horror of the crew of the Commando, they’d been mistaken for the target.
One by one, all four aircraft launched all of their rockets, 104 each. They all missed.
In the debrief, the captain was the last guy in.
“What did you do when you realized what was happening?”.
“I closed my eyes”.
“That’s what the rest of the crew said, too”.
Closer to “Blast From the Past” than “1941”.
But “1941” was based off of these events (with artistic/comedic license)
“The Great Los Angeles Air Raid”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
and I-19’s War Patrol in the area of Los Angeles Harbor in December 1941 shortly after the Pearl Harbor Attack
http://www.historynet.com/japanese-submarines-prowl-the-us-pacific-coastline-in-1941.htm
Horrywood!
Oh man…I thought it had something to do with an Home Owner’s Association…[:(]
It does point out the shortcomings of an interceptor not equipped with cannon or MG, doesn’t it ?..
Ah you crazy Californians! Couldn’t happen here on the east coast- we only had the USAF dropping an A-bomb on South Carolina…
Don’t think it had anything to do with the shelling of Fort Sumter, after all this was a hundred years too late… [:|]
Well, consider that the F-89 was later equipped with the Genie rocket, those were crazy times.
Gamera, I learn something every day. Thanks for that…
Np GM, I’m glad SP posted this- I’d never heard of The ‘Battle’ of Palmdale’.
Hilarious!
Three words that should never be in the same sentence:
‘unguided’ ‘nuclear’ ‘missle’ [:|]
Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas
Can you imagine the insufferably smug reaction of the Air Force brass when they had to be called on to “clean up the Navy’s mess”…and the kind of humble pie they had to consume when it didn’t quite work out as planned? A bad day to be an officer having any part in the whole shebang, I’m guessing.