Unusual WWII American Weapons
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I've noticed that there are several strange American weapons from the war that haven't made it into the game. I know you guys are pretty strict about weapon mods here so I thought that maybe someone could make these and add them to new planes or something. My references are at the bottom. Here they are:

Napalm

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I know that B-17's were equipped with up to four 108 gal. paper tanks from P-51's filled with napalm for bombing raids on German bunkers. I also know that P-38 drop tanks were filled with napalm for strikes in both Europe and the Pacific. The P-47N also used napalm in 165 gallon tanks from the P-38.

Pumpkin Bombs

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These were used in Silverplate bombers for firebombing runs before the nuclear attacks. They were developed as a high powered incedinary bomb in the Manhattan project and used the same casing as the Fatman nuclear bomb. As a side note, on the Silverplate score boards, you see black and red symbols. The black ones are pumpkin bomb raids participated in and the red are nuclear attacks participated in.

JB-2 Loon

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This was basically a V-1 flying bomb. It was tested on the B-17 and the B-29 and was planned for use in the Invasion of Japan.

Azon

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The Azon was one of the world's first guided bombs. It had the explosive power of a 1,000lbs bomb. It was used by a few B-24 squadrons.

http://www.thepinklady.fr/post/2006/09/1...ion:-Royan
http://home.att.net/~historyzone/Seversk...blic8.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histori...n/Loon.htm
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histories/B17/B17.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZON

I finally got this to work... For some reason, I think that it didn't like the part against the Bat bomb because once I got rid of that, it worked fine.
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