And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, April 23, 2018
A B-24M of the 448th Bombardment Group, serial number 44-50838, downed by a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter.
Not every story has a happy ending.
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ReplyDeleteGood Read: 8th Air Force Bomber Stories Authors: Ian McLachlan & Russell Zorn.
ISBN: 1 85260 367 4
Some pretty descriptive stuff, and lots of photographs.
+1 on the book.
DeleteB-17 serial number 42-31188. Last four 1188. Eights and Aces. Dead man's hand. The last combat loss of my dad's bomb group, shot down by Me-262.
http://www.447bg.com/42-31188.htm