B17, with a P38 in the background.
B24
My Dad was a ball turret gunner on a B24 "The Silver Queen" in Italy 1944-45.
Posted on 07/13/2005 1:29:56 PM PDT by Hat-Trick
Two people were killed and five injured Wednesday in a one-vehicle accident on eastbound Interstate 80 near Gretna.
Authorities said the vehicle involved was a state van, possibly with disabled veterans inside. The van was from Thomas Fitzgerald Veterans Home in Omaha.
The passengers had been in Lincoln to see two vintage bombers, a B-17G Flying Fortress and a B-24J Liberator, on display at the Lincoln Airport.
Three were ejected from the van and others were pinned inside. A rear section of the van was nearly sheared off.
The accident occurred about 11:30 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-80, about three miles east of the Platte River bridge.
A witness said the van veered toward the median, then began weaving. The van rolled several times and wound up in a ditch, said Mary Jo Pankoke of Lincoln.
"It was a horrible scene," she said.
Pankoke, executive director of the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation, said a nurse and nursing student from another vehicle rushed to the van to provide aid. She said it was her understanding that three staffers and four patients were in the van.
Rescue workers from Ashland and Gretna worked to free those trapped in the van.
The eastbound Interstate was closed and traffic diverted, starting at Greenwood, to U.S. Highway 50.
World-Herald staff writer Abe Winter contributed to this report.
How terribly sad.
Prayers up for all these vets.
B17, with a P38 in the background.
B24
My Dad was a ball turret gunner on a B24 "The Silver Queen" in Italy 1944-45.
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