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Gerald
10-17-10, 10:47 AM
Bombers: Heavyweights of World War II

Death from above, or the cavalry on wings ... regardless which side you were on, there was no denying that bombers changed the face of warfare, and were an integral part of life on the front in World War II. Here a crew of a U.S. B-26 Marauder nicknamed Ginger discusses an upcoming run in England in 1944.

http://www.life.com/image/53302606/in-gallery/26102/wwii-allied-bombers-and-crews
Bubblehead1980
10-17-10, 04:20 PM
Bombers: Heavyweights of World War II

Death from above, or the cavalry on wings ... regardless which side you were on, there was no denying that bombers changed the face of warfare, and were an integral part of life on the front in World War II. Here a crew of a U.S. B-26 Marauder nicknamed Ginger discusses an upcoming run in England in 1944.

http://www.life.com/image/53302606/in-gallery/26102/wwii-allied-bombers-and-crews


Awseome photos, thanks for the post:arrgh!:
Oberon
10-17-10, 04:37 PM
The 390th Heavy group flew out of a nearby airfield at RAF Framlingham, with their little friends flying out of Leiston. God bless the crews. :salute: True heroes.
krashkart
10-17-10, 08:08 PM
I gather that it took some nerves and dedication to crew those birds. Nary a safe place on any of them, if at all.
papa_smurf
10-18-10, 04:18 AM
I gather that it took some nerves and dedication to crew those birds. Nary a safe place on any of them, if at all.

Indeed, as same goes for RAF bomber pilots:salute:
Schroeder
10-18-10, 06:04 AM
Indeed, as same goes for RAF bomber pilots:salute:
I think it goes for all crews of all planes in that war.;)
yubba
10-18-10, 03:23 PM
My great uncle Ken flew the hump in Burma as a waist gunner in a B24.
JU_88
10-18-10, 05:16 PM
nice pics, thanks for sharing :up:
krashkart
10-18-10, 05:20 PM
My great uncle Ken flew the hump in Burma as a waist gunner in a B24.

My late great grandmother helped build some of those bombers. :salute:
sharkbit
10-18-10, 05:27 PM
My dad was a B-17 waist gunner with the 94th Bomb Group out of Bury St. Edmunds.

Unfotuneately, he died in 1972 when I was 7 and before I became interested in WWII. I'd love to have heard some of his stories. I remember he had a scar on his back from shrapnel and a Purple Heart but I never heard exactly how he got it.

All of them deserve a salute. :salute:

:)
yubba
10-18-10, 05:54 PM
:salute: I got a distant cousin Jim Empey still alive ,I think flew with 8th Army Air Corps, little freinds P51 didn't talk much about the war, but had an amazing model aircraft collection. He and my great uncle Ken have some of their WWII memoribelia in the Glenn Curtuss Museum in Hammonsport New York. http://www.military-art.com/mall/aces.php?PilotID=3201