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.
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Tail gun position on an early C-87 Liberator Express, 1942
Did you know that Clark Gable went to England with the 351st Bombardment Group i8n '43? Did some time at a waist-gunner position. Made a movie, which is on You Tube, titled Air Combat.
The 2nd machine this morning I had to look up!
ReplyDeleteGood for discouraging tailgaters.
ReplyDeleteThat looks great for shooting downward or maybe even horiz.....but how do you line-up the sights for the upward shot?
ReplyDeleteDid you know that Clark Gable went to England with the 351st Bombardment Group i8n '43? Did some time at a waist-gunner position. Made a movie, which is on You Tube, titled Air Combat.
ReplyDeleteOne of those old buckets of bolts is still flying around the warbirds circuit, along with a B-24 J.
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