is parked about 5 miles away from my house right now. Might go take a tour tomorrow.
"At the age of 19, Landry was transferred to Sioux City, Iowa, where he trained as a copilot for flying a B-17.
In 1944, Landry got his orders, and from Sioux City he went to Liverpool, England, where he was assigned to the Eighth Air Force, 493rd Squadron in Ipswich.
Landry earned his wings and a commission as a Second Lieutenant at Lubbock Army Air Field, and was assigned to the 493d Bombardment Group at RAF Debach, England, as a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber copilot in the 860th Bombardment Squadron. From November 1944 to April 1945, he completed a combat tour of 30 missions, and survived a crash landing in Belgium after his bomber ran out of fuel."
The "Man in the Funny Hat" was a man of steel.
is parked about 5 miles away from my house right now. Might go take a tour tomorrow.