[Arlis]

Thanks LIM. My deceased uncle flew one of these in WWII, and crashed twice and lived miraculously through both.

One was on a land strip where he flipped and slid upside down into an ammunition storage building, and it did not go off.

The other was off a carrier into the water where it too flipped hitting the water upside down. Very few could get out of a plane hitting the water upside down, but he did.

He later became a prominent Florida architect and mayor of a major city.

My 93 yr. old father will love seeing this article and hearing about it. He was also in the Navy, retired from the reserves a Captain, and it’s a miracle he and my mother - 95 - are still living and well.

arlis

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Thanks, your family is one of the reasons I’m glad to be an American.

[Northern Yankee]

God Bless your family.

Thank your dad for his service to our country.

My uncle worked on those planes. He did not care for them at all. Dad flew B-29's out of Guam.