The Liberty Belle in happier times.
Breaks my heart to have another beautiful warbird lost, but she took care of all aboard. The Fortress did her job of sacrificing herself for the crew. Sucks, but a happy ending nonetheless.
I still grieve when I see picutures of hundreds upon hundreds of B-17s and other aircraft disassembled for scrap after the war, with no thought of saving a few score for museums and posterity. I completely understand that people wanted nothing to do with the war or war machinery at the time, except practical things like jeeps to us on the farm. Still and all, such a shame we couldn’t have saved more for history’s sake.
The Liberty Belle in happier times.
My late father used to tell stories of flying airplanes from the factory to the scrap yard after the end of the war. He said they would give the planes a real workout since they were headed for destruction.
It was a shame the so many other models from the war were not sold to the public for appreciation. One case, they buried over 1500 P-38’s fresh off the assembly line, drover over them first with D-8’s and burried them, new engines and all. They made no attempt to salvage a thing from these priceless war birds.
They did the same with most new P-51’s etc,.....Pure shame!
“Breaks my heart to have another beautiful warbird lost, but she took care of all aboard. The Fortress did her job of sacrificing herself for the crew. Sucks, but a happy ending nonetheless.”
You are right. Faithful to the end.