Re: Auxillary Cruisers

In a message dated 7/13/99 8:20:41 PM EST, Lin@RxKinetix.com writes:

<< (gotta love the "stringbags" -- open cockpit biplanes in WWII?
 >kinda like bringin' a knife to a gunfight?  Yet surprsingly they
worked).
 
 That's mostly because they were flying too slowly for the other
aricraft or
 anit-air weaponary to stay with them ;)
  >>

They were still flying off CVE's in 1944 along the North Atlantic convoy

routes because they could actually operate in apalling weather
conditions 
that grounded everything else. A great war bird in all ways, even if she
did 
fly slow. (There was a floatplane version that was even SLOWER!)