Now that is Just a Great Way to Spend Lunch Hour
A restored WWII B-17G was here for the last few days. I had an chance to go out to the airport and crawl around and through it. My inner kid, aka "Bart" (as in the Simpsons), is crazy about old war birds like this one.I walked away from the experience with a better idea of the courage it took for our fathers to take to the air in these things. A few millimeters of aluminum or plexiglass was all that stood between them and the swarming fighters of the Luftwaffe. Talk about guts.
posted by Monterey John at 7:09 AM
7 Comments:
Wow, that's really neat. Thanks for sharing these with us John. Did you get to fire the gun?
great pics! cheers ;)
They are the last of a passing generation. I still say the greatest generation this world has seen.
That is so cool. Another era. Thanks for the pix.
Wow, John! Those are fantastic shots and a great way to spend a lunch hour. I think I want to do lunch with you sometime, you sure now how to do it right.
How neat!! Very interesting.
Tena koe ehoa
Like this look at the age of transport technology from another time and age.
I hope thats all we do with remnants of wartime such as these though. Its rememberance of times when these machines were in use that should make us realise that death is not the answer to a better life.
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