"Which WWII aircraft was known as, ""The Flying Porcupine""?"
Aircraft in fiction apparently being shot down by a saucer. Vought SB2U Vindicators were featured in the 1941 Warner Bros. film "Dive Bomber". A Short Sunderland flying boat patrol bomber was the setting for much of the 1980 novel "The Flying Porcupine" by Richard Haligon. The novel takes its title from a nickname reputedly given to the Sunderland by German pilots thanks to its defensive armament of as many as 16 machine guns. CIA officer Jack Ryan (played by Alec Baldwin) is flown from an aircraft carrier to the submarine in a Sikorsky SH-3H Sea King in the 1990 film "Hunt for Red
Shady Lady (aircraft) was part of the 380th Bombardment Group which flew B-24 bombers in the South West and Western Pacific areas in WWII. Known as the "Flying Circus" and "King Of The Heavies", the 380th Bombardment Group went overseas in April 1943 and was placed under the control of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and assigned to the Australian North West Area Command operating out of Darwin, Northern Territory. On 19 February 1942, 10 weeks after leading the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese bomber pilot Mitsuo Fuchida, flying from the same aircraft carrier, attacked Darwin. The Japanese air raids on Darwin,