I had that same experience here in southern NJ a few years ago. A B-17 flew over on it’s way to a local airfield as part of a traveling tour. I heard the throaty roar of those Pratt& Whitney’s and there is was. What a sight. A few months later it was a B-24. I went to the show and I couldn’t believe how cramped the inside of both those planes were. There wasn’t anywhere in either plane you could stand upright. The bomb bay of the B-24 offered a little bit of an ability to at least straighten up a bit but the cat walk through the bomb bay was only about eight inches wide with a ‘’railing’’ about waist level. That was the only thing between you and the Earth. My God, those men, kids really had guts.
Yes. They did indeed. God bless them all.