Saw B-24 Land Yesterday

[Heibges]

I had to drive down to San Jose yesterday, and saw a B-24 land at Moffet Field where they also have the giant blimp hangars. It really made my day.

[Letum]

b24s are sexy.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice:up:

RDP

[geetrue]

My friend Rod Whiteker, who just happens to be still alive, use to be a tail gunner on B-24's in WW II.

The owner of the MGM, who just sold his casino, use to fly B-24's in WW II ...
sad to watch movies of their bombing runs and all of a sudden one peels off smoking to the land below.

We owe a lot to those old fly boys ... :yep:

[U-104]

We owe a lot to those old fly boys ... :yep:
:yep::yep:

[Heibges]

My uncle was shot down in a B-17, and was in a German POW camp.

[HunterICX]

In Holland I lived close to the Airbase of Gilze,
every year 1 day they took out the old boys and flew over with B25's Mitchells
damn I loved the Noise of those engines. :rock:

[Biggles]

Will never forget the day I was walking around in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named Miss Angela, at the Palm Springs Air Museum. I know it ain't the same as a B-24 Liberator, but it is by far my favourite plane of all times.:yep:

[Heibges]

I did a google search on Moffett Field and B-24, and found some pictures. But they were all silver B-24's, and the one I saw land was green.

[bradclark1]

Bomber crews of WW2 had big ones. Losses where huge and they still went back. Got to respect that.

[Heibges]

Yep, I think more bomber crewman killed in WWII than Marines.

[Lagger123987]

What does the B-24 use for a lot beside bombing?

[Heibges]

Attacking uboats?

Yikes!

[CCIP]

Attacking uboats?

Yikes!

:yep:

Which is also technically bombing, though of a different sort.

[Sailor Steve]

What does the B-24 use for a lot beside bombing?
Because the high wing left a lot of space in the fuselage, the army had Consolidated build some cargo versions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-87_Liberator_Express

[FIREWALL]

And old girlfriends father flew a B-24in WWII and one of his last missions was photo recon of Nagasaki after the a-bomb was dropped. He said the
devastation he saw would stay with him for the rest of his life.

[perisher]

I woke up this morning to the sound of Merlin engines, pulled back the bed room curtains just in time to see the Lancaster fly over my house at about 500 feet!

I live quite close to the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's base at RAF Conningsby.