• Nose Art: Snake Eyes

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    SNAKE EYES (7/12/62)

    In the skies over Korea in 1952, Maj. Albert Mandlebaum downs six MiG’s in a single mission. His aircraft, a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, was dubbed SNAKE EYES for luck. Ten years later, when Mandlebaum successfully infiltrated the BattleTech universe, he named his transport pod SNAKE EYES II to help continue his winning streak.

    SNAKE EYES II: Type: UFT 4A-X
    Commissioned: April, 1962
    Four missions
    Disappeared in BattleTech, July, 1962
    SNAKE EYES III: Type: System 2.0
    Commissioned: December, 1988
    Forty-one missions
    Destroyed in gantry fire, March, 1990
    SNAKE EYES VI: Type: System 4.0
    Commissioned: January, 1995

     

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