-——Eighth Air Force or The Mighty 8th.-——
I just got back from a vacation in South Carolina and the Mighty 8 th has a museum near Hilton Head....
They are reconditioning a Flying Fortess there...pretty cool place...
10 guys get into a bomber... Fly at sub zero temps... For hours at a time....Drop six - thousand pounds bombs over Germany all the while talking heavy flak....
Turn around go home.... If you make it....
....had the opportunity to tour the bomber Nine-O-Nine this past summer when it was here local...did the tour. (climbed around inside)...and IT WAS TIGHT..*LOL*. Didn’t do the ride thing, but the tour was worth it. If you get the chance.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2kq28awJ-M
10 guys get into a bomber... Fly at sub zero temps... For hours at a time....Drop six - thousand pounds bombs over Germany all the while talking heavy flak....
Turn around go home.... If you make it....
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Do that 25 times and you MAY get to go home....
As a pre teen, I had some crazy notion of being a belly gunner in a Bomber...
Thought that would have been cool, but my Uncle (tin can sailor Pac) explained what the 1st target may be, where the pee settles, what happens when the landing gear won’t engage etc etc etc.
Being a quick learner and even at that young age having a bit of common sense, I figured the USMC was the ‘safe’ place for me to be.
He never was able to get me to ‘give up’ the Brooklyn Dodgers though, no matter how hard he tried <: <:...
The Mighty 8th museum is awesome. Visited last year.