(San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
Posted on 09/21/2020 4:09:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The North American B-25 crashed Saturday evening a few miles southeast of the Stockton Metropolitan Airport. Three people were on board. One person walked away and two others were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
The aircraft was extensively damaged.
(San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
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Never took a ride myself. My Mom lived under a B-17 flight path during the war and in the 90’s she got a ride in one. She said when she first heard it the hair on her head stood up.
One of the greatest airplanes ever built. It’s up there with the C-130.
Even the Soviets flew them in WWII.
Nearly 10,000 were built.
In October, 1967, I saw a B-17 and TBM Avenger torpedo bombers in action, fighting a brushfire in the Whittier Hills just northeast of Whittier, Calif.
I moved back to Modesto after being born and raised here.
There was a neighborhood in Stockton called Okieville where immigrants from Oklahoma made their home. It is said that they liked to drive mid-70’s Chevy Monte Carlos, and they voted red. However, the Okies have probably moved on, to be replaced by immigrants from states with names like Sonora, Sinaloa and Oaxaca.
Probably pretty easy to do in those days but I'm surprised they didn't jack it up and test it before the taxi test.
Stockton has a deserved bad reputation, was not always this way. Rich in history and gateway to the delta. Used to have the best airshow.
you can probably buy parts from it on CL and Ebay in the morning after the chop shops from Moodesto finish with it. BTW I was born in Stockton, retired in 2012 and moved to Northern Idaho a few days later.
I lived in Okieville for a while right off of fremont street. later new east main by a old bar called “joes Club”.
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