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.
My dad was based in the Pacific Campaign. With the unit using the skull and crossed bombs insignia. Dad is gone and I can't remember what unit designation it was.
Anon @1158, that was the 90th Bomb Group, 5th Air Force. Here is a link to a short history. There's more online if you want to search. Maybe you can find more on your dad. https://www.5thaf.org/90th-bomb-group.cfm
A sad book about the 90th is Ten Knights In A Bar Room. It is well researched and well written about Ten Knights who went missing returning over New Guinea in 1943 during attacks by Japanese fighters. The plane was found in 1970. Dave
All that work scrapped. Why they could have mothballed at least a dozen if everything sent there. Been there a few times, the weather is perfect for long term storage, long as they use some preventative protection. Such a shame, i would think be no lack of people into restoring these incredible pieces of flying art. Like the Delta Darts, compared to present aircraft those birds are like lawn mowers, put a modern base engine in one, off shelf plug and play flight instrumentation, and modern off shelf digital controls, they dont need to be fighters, so much can be excluded, simplifying restoration, and they are wonderful handling jets.
If you watch the movie "The Best Years of Our Lives," you will see a scene where the bomber pilot, who's lost in bad memories, goes into a salvage yard near NYFC. He climbs up into one of the planes. All those planes, being cut up, engines cut up, everything cut up to be sold as scrap.
There were cutting and scrapping yards everywhere in the US. Only the lucky planes made it out to the desert to be possibly picked to the bones in the future.
"Wonder what it looks like now?" Look at your silverware, look at your beer/soda cans, look at your aircraft the next time you take an airliner flight. That's what it looks like. Too bad they didn't save more of the nose-art.
Full of D and G-model B-52s.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was based in the Pacific Campaign. With the unit using the skull and crossed bombs insignia. Dad is gone and I can't remember what unit designation it was.
ReplyDeleteAnon @1158, that was the 90th Bomb Group, 5th Air Force. Here is a link to a short history. There's more online if you want to search. Maybe you can find more on your dad.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.5thaf.org/90th-bomb-group.cfm
A sad book about the 90th is Ten Knights In A Bar Room. It is well researched and well written about Ten Knights who went missing returning over New Guinea in 1943 during attacks by Japanese fighters. The plane was found in 1970.
Dave
All that work scrapped. Why they could have mothballed at least a dozen if everything sent there. Been there a few times, the weather is perfect for long term storage, long as they use some preventative protection. Such a shame, i would think be no lack of people into restoring these incredible pieces of flying art. Like the Delta Darts, compared to present aircraft those birds are like lawn mowers, put a modern base engine in one, off shelf plug and play flight instrumentation, and modern off shelf digital controls, they dont need to be fighters, so much can be excluded, simplifying restoration, and they are wonderful handling jets.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch the movie "The Best Years of Our Lives," you will see a scene where the bomber pilot, who's lost in bad memories, goes into a salvage yard near NYFC. He climbs up into one of the planes. All those planes, being cut up, engines cut up, everything cut up to be sold as scrap.
ReplyDeleteThere were cutting and scrapping yards everywhere in the US. Only the lucky planes made it out to the desert to be possibly picked to the bones in the future.
"Wonder what it looks like now?" Look at your silverware, look at your beer/soda cans, look at your aircraft the next time you take an airliner flight. That's what it looks like. Too bad they didn't save more of the nose-art.
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