Post your favourite nose art !
Article about: I just love looking at the hundreds of fascinating nose art on both USAF and Bomber Command aircraft! Please post here your favourite ! There are so many to choose from but I have to start w
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Yes getting the chance to spend time with them and listening to their stories changed my perception of oral history. I found out more information from them than I could have gotten from reading 100 books. I got the chance to go to an aviation museum with the pilot and we crawled around a B-17G. He explained every detail about the duties of the pilot and co-pilot. Then I was able to take the waist gunner on an honor flight trip as his guardian. We spent a few nights in the hotel bar discussing his time in POW camp Stalag Luft IV. I didn't intend to write the book but the stories were just so great I couldn't avoid it.
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soalebm
Yes getting the chance to spend time with them and listening to their stories changed my perception of oral history. I found out more information from them than I could have gotten from reading 100 books. I got the chance to go to an aviation museum with the pilot and we crawled around a B-17G. He explained every detail about the duties of the pilot and co-pilot. Then I was able to take the waist gunner on an honor flight trip as his guardian. We spent a few nights in the hotel bar discussing his time in POW camp Stalag Luft IV. I didn't intend to write the book but the stories were just so great I couldn't avoid it.
Priceless !
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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After we were done at the air force museum I felt like I could have jumped in the pilots seat and performed a "run up" like a pro haha!
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here is a photo of Al and I. He was the waist gunner on "Never Satisfied." He also served in Korea at Yong Dong Po and in Vietnam as an ordinance specialist in Thailand for the B-52s
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Douglas C-47 displayed at Merville battery in Normandy.
Nice battery to visit, you can go inside the aircraft.
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Thanks for adding those Wrecker !!
I wonder if 'Big Dick' had the same connotations
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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I dont know what you mean....
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