>>Two weeks ago I went to
>>Michigan and rode on the
>>WW2 B-25 Yankee Warrior. It
>>was part of the Yankee
>>Air Museum.
>>
>>I wanted to do this because
>>my father served in the
>>South Pacific during WW2 in
>>the 345th bomb Group which
>>was a B-25 group. The
>>Group was having a reunion
>>there and that's how I
>>happened to be there.
>>
>>They had the B-17 Yankee Lady
>>there but weren't offering rides
>>on it the day I
>>was there.
>>
>>Should a person do this? Not
>>sure but they seemed to
>>have a pretty good safety
>>record. (I still want to
>>ride on a B-17 because
>>I had an uncle that
>>was a ball turret gunner
>>on one flying over Germany.)
>>
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>do it WVHUNTER.....the only positions we
>couldn't move to was the
>ball turret and the tail
>gunner.....too dangerous maneuvering to them....tells
>you what the guys that
>did it in real life
>were up against..
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It's always sad when they lose one of these bombers so much history with every plane is lost.
My Dad was a midship gunner on a B-17 in WW2 464th H Bomber Group 777th Squadron. His plane went down on a bombing raid over the oil fields in Romania on D-Day. All made it out of plane except nose gunner that was killed in his turret from enemy fighter fire. My dad was a POW in Bucharest Romania for 4 months until they were all liberated in Sept 44. As other WW2 vets he never talked about it, after doing a lot of research into his Bomber Group and reading MAC reports I can now understand why he never talked about it. I can't even imagine what it would be like to see a plane disintegrate in mid air with a crew of soldiers that you based with? He did kinda open up a little to my brother and I about 3 months before he died and I have been able to research his history in WW2 even found the POW camp buildings that are still standing with google earth.
