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11/23/2022 9:17:10 AM PST by
fidelis
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The kids ate it up. They also usually had a B-25, P-51 and sometimes a B-17. My brother was a nut about WW1 and WW2 aircraft when we were kids, and I soaked up enough by osmosis to give a pretty good 5-minute lecture on what those brave men and these planes did so long ago. They saved civilization.
When in the B-17, I'd always point out the ball turret position and ask tell the kids what it must have felt like to be trapped in that for the whole long, cold flight. I recited "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" from memory. I still can.