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.
As I mentioned in a earlier comment, Square "K" was my dad's bomb group. Ship on the left with letter "M" on the tail is "Thumper"-- (scroll down towards the bottom)
I sat in back of an HU-16 during a mag check run up, it had the same engines as the B-17, this was back in '78... I did a quick math check & decided I couldn't afford the gas to do the mag check! That was the end of my "gosh it would be good to buy one of these" dreams.
Google says: "Warbirds parked at Kingman, Arizona, shortly after the end of WWII". According to the link RHT447 provided above, most were scrapped out. What a shame.
Ever read the book "Everything but the flak"? The story of the acquiescing of three B-17's for the movie "The War Lover". At the end the pilot who got the aircraft air ready and flew them over the ocean had to fly one into the cliffs of Dover. Quite a story.
Yup. By Martin Caidin. Got a copy in a dusty box somewhere. Loved the part where he describes them flying at about 500 feet above the Atlantic to stay under the cloud cover. They flew right over a surfaced submarine with apparently a lone sailor standing on the bridge. They could see him gape in amazement as the three literal flying Dutchmen came pounding out of the weather and disappeared over the horizon.
search "Newbury, Ohio vintage aircraft". a gaggle of postwar planes along a hiway behind a woods. drove past it a hundred times with no idea it was there when I was young. years later a friend sent me a news article about it, he wrote, "under our noses the whole time".
A man I worked for one summer went there and he was lucky enough to find his plane and got the log book from it. I forgot how many missions he flew in that plane.
As I mentioned in a earlier comment, Square "K" was my dad's bomb group. Ship on the left with letter "M" on the tail is "Thumper"-- (scroll down towards the bottom)
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I sat in back of an HU-16 during a mag check run up, it had the same engines as the B-17, this was back in '78... I did a quick math check & decided I couldn't afford the gas to do the mag check! That was the end of my "gosh it would be good to buy one of these" dreams.
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ReplyDeleteGoogle says: "Warbirds parked at Kingman, Arizona, shortly after the end of WWII".
DeleteAccording to the link RHT447 provided above, most were scrapped out. What a shame.
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ReplyDeleteEver read the book "Everything but the flak"? The story of the acquiescing of three B-17's for the movie "The War Lover".
ReplyDeleteAt the end the pilot who got the aircraft air ready and flew them over the ocean had to fly one into the cliffs of Dover.
Quite a story.
Oh drat, spell checker. Acquiring .
DeleteYup. By Martin Caidin. Got a copy in a dusty box somewhere. Loved the part where he describes them flying at about 500 feet above the Atlantic to stay under the cloud cover. They flew right over a surfaced submarine with apparently a lone sailor standing on the bridge. They could see him gape in amazement as the three literal flying Dutchmen came pounding out of the weather and disappeared over the horizon.
DeleteUsed to have a copy before the fire. I think we have the same taste in literature.
Deletesearch "Newbury, Ohio vintage aircraft". a gaggle of postwar planes along a hiway behind a woods. drove past it a hundred times with no idea it was there when I was young. years later a friend sent me a news article about it, he wrote, "under our noses the whole time".
ReplyDeleteA man I worked for one summer went there and he was lucky enough to find his plane and got the log book from it. I forgot how many missions he flew in that plane.
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