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.
There's a picture I've seen out there a lot of times of a B-24 that either slid out of it's place in formation, or the plane above it did, and took a bomb right through the wing root, snapping it off an sending it down.
Zoom in and look closely at the #1 prop. It is feathered, so the engine is out, which would explain the loss of altitude. Hopefully once it dropped it's bomb load it rejoined the formation. Al_in_Ottawa
My Dad stood just behind the port wing, swinging around a .50 M2 from the waist. He was in Big Week, flew on Disney bunker Buster missions, protected the Norden bomb sight that was installed. A complete tour, before he was 20. Thank you P-51’s for keeping him mostly safe and sound.
As Jamie Johnson sings you should have seen it in color. Man that song always makes the room misty
ReplyDeleteB17s dropping bombs post over the Germany post, I see what you did there!
ReplyDeleteSeems kinda sketchy flying under falling bombs?
ReplyDeleteProbably on its way down
DeleteThere's a picture I've seen out there a lot of times of a B-24 that either slid out of it's place in formation, or the plane above it did, and took a bomb right through the wing root, snapping it off an sending it down.
DeleteNo easy days in the 8th AF.
Because the low idiot is damaged and out of formation.
DeleteZoom in and look closely at the #1 prop. It is feathered, so the engine is out, which would explain the loss of altitude. Hopefully once it dropped it's bomb load it rejoined the formation.
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My Dad stood just behind the port wing, swinging around a .50 M2 from the waist. He was in Big Week, flew on Disney bunker Buster missions, protected the Norden bomb sight that was installed. A complete tour, before he was 20. Thank you P-51’s for keeping him mostly safe and sound.
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