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.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Engine maintenance on the B-24J Liberator “BOLIVAR” in the Pacific. It survived 81 combat missions and was flown back to the US in 1944 for a War Bonds tour.
I wonder if they made the mechanic dress up for the photo.
My father was an WWII Army Air Forces airplane mechanic on numerous islands in the Pacific for three years. He said it was so hot and humid that the standard flight line mechanic’s uniform was a ball cap, a pair of khaki pants cut off into shorts, and the ankle high boots. Everybody got good tans.
I wonder if they made the mechanic dress up for the photo.
ReplyDeleteMy father was an WWII Army Air Forces airplane mechanic on numerous islands in the Pacific for three years. He said it was so hot and humid that the standard flight line mechanic’s uniform was a ball cap, a pair of khaki pants cut off into shorts, and the ankle high boots. Everybody got good tans.
Maybe he knew my grandfather, Kenneth D. Oyler, from 42,43,44, he preferred wearing the light weight overalls
DeleteMy grandfather was a mechanic on the Bolivar in the Pacific Islands of the Gilbert, Marshall and Solomons,his name was Kenneth d.oyler
ReplyDeleteWould love some feedback at oylerj66@gmail.com
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