My dad was a B24 pilot in WWll flying out of Lecce, Italy. Engines damaged by flak and crash landed at Zara(now Zadar, Croatia). All crew members survived. The photo above would be of a smaller bomber and a waste gunner, I would agree.
Jim
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An interesting side note. Actor Charlton Heston (Moses in the Ten Commandments, Ben Hurr in Ben Hurr) was "an aerial guinner" aboard a Mitchell B-25 Bomber stationed in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska during World War II. (He saw action over the Japan's Northern Kuril Islands.)
Ironic that the WWII Gunner became a five-term President of the National Rifle Association in later years.
Added trivia:
He actually spent some time in my town of Anchorage Alaska recovering from injuries he suffered in assisting downed pilots when he slipped on ice and was run over by an ambulance. Here, once recovered, he ran the control tower at Elmendorf Air Force Base, the site of the recent meeting between the Presidents of USA and Russia.
Aerial Recon Plane coming in for landing at JBER, f/k/a Elmendorf Air Force Base:
I think that would be a "waist gunner", not a "tail gunner".
The plane looks smaller than a B17. Maybe a B25 ?
JWP's photo is even more on point as Heston was in fact a "waist gunner:"
"Heston was assigned to the Seventy-Seventh Bombardment Squadron of the Eleventh Air Force, stationed on an island in the Aleutian chain, where he was trained as a radio gunner and, for the next two years, flew several B-25 combat missions over the Kuril Islands of northern Japan. His assignment was to man one of the waist guns that radiomen like him usually handled as the second gunner."
In addition to the above photo I took of an AWACS Recon plane coming in for landing at JBER (Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson), added is a photo of a helicopter that I took while on the base.
I am not selling this item. I saw it and took a couple of screenshots. Early air-conditioning for cars? When i first saw it, i thought it was a JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off).
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My Dad was a B-24 Pilot in WWll. Here is his #1 plane named after my mother, Ruth. Here also is a photo of the crashlanding at Zara, Hungary now Zadar, Croatia. All crewmembers survived.
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Going through some photos for a book I’m putting together for our traveling partners and ourselves of trips we’ve done, and this one from the Galapagos is fresh on my mind:
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I used to have family on Whidbey Island that we’d stay with a lot. Down near the OLF. I miss watching the Prowlers scream past doing their touch and gos. Those things were loud. So are the Growlers for that matter.
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I used to have family on Whidbey Island that we’d stay with a lot. Down near the OLF. I miss watching the Prowlers scream past doing their touch and gos. Those things were loud. So are the Growlers for that matter.
The Prowler is an EA6. I believe Whidbey Island had A-6s also. I was stationed on the East coast at NAS Oceana (Virginis Beach VA.
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I used to have family on Whidbey Island that we’d stay with a lot. Down near the OLF. I miss watching the Prowlers scream past doing their touch and gos. Those things were loud. So are the Growlers for that matter.
Whidbey Island, that brings back memories. As a high school student I flew in a military transport from Alaska to California and we stopped there. (It was part of an award from the Air Force related to a science fair project I had entered in the Science Fair.)
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Thanks. Much appreciated. How old is your daughter?
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I think that would be a "waist gunner", not a "tail gunner".
The plane looks smaller than a B17. Maybe a B25 ?
My dad was a B24 pilot in WWll flying out of Lecce, Italy. Engines damaged by flak and crash landed at Zara(now Zadar, Croatia). All crew members survived. The photo above would be of a smaller bomber and a waste gunner, I would agree.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
An interesting side note. Actor Charlton Heston (Moses in the Ten Commandments, Ben Hurr in Ben Hurr) was "an aerial guinner" aboard a Mitchell B-25 Bomber stationed in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska during World War II. (He saw action over the Japan's Northern Kuril Islands.)
Ironic that the WWII Gunner became a five-term President of the National Rifle Association in later years.
Added trivia:
He actually spent some time in my town of Anchorage Alaska recovering from injuries he suffered in assisting downed pilots when he slipped on ice and was run over by an ambulance. Here, once recovered, he ran the control tower at Elmendorf Air Force Base, the site of the recent meeting between the Presidents of USA and Russia.
Aerial Recon Plane coming in for landing at JBER, f/k/a Elmendorf Air Force Base:
JWP's photo is even more on point as Heston was in fact a "waist gunner:"
"Heston was assigned to the Seventy-Seventh Bombardment Squadron of the Eleventh Air Force, stationed on an island in the Aleutian chain, where he was trained as a radio gunner and, for the next two years, flew several B-25 combat missions over the Kuril Islands of northern Japan. His assignment was to man one of the waist guns that radiomen like him usually handled as the second gunner."
In addition to the above photo I took of an AWACS Recon plane coming in for landing at JBER (Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson), added is a photo of a helicopter that I took while on the base.
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I am not selling this item. I saw it and took a couple of screenshots. Early air-conditioning for cars? When i first saw it, i thought it was a JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off).
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My Dad was a B-24 Pilot in WWll. Here is his #1 plane named after my mother, Ruth. Here also is a photo of the crashlanding at Zara, Hungary now Zadar, Croatia. All crewmembers survived.
Jim
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
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Going through some photos for a book I’m putting together for our traveling partners and ourselves of trips we’ve done, and this one from the Galapagos is fresh on my mind:
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I used to have family on Whidbey Island that we’d stay with a lot. Down near the OLF. I miss watching the Prowlers scream past doing their touch and gos. Those things were loud. So are the Growlers for that matter.
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The Prowler is an EA6. I believe Whidbey Island had A-6s also. I was stationed on the East coast at NAS Oceana (Virginis Beach VA.
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Whidbey Island, that brings back memories. As a high school student I flew in a military transport from Alaska to California and we stopped there. (It was part of an award from the Air Force related to a science fair project I had entered in the Science Fair.)
From today, Friday:
Christmas Gingerbread Village Delights Children Again at Alaska’s Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage set to the music of
Jingle Bell Rock as sung by Bobby Helm:
Links to video of Gingerbread Christmas Village:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jAiAvJFc5q4
Concurrently taken photo:
Also from today, Friday:
From Alaska’s Active Mt Spurr Volcano to Mt Susitna Sunset Glows Above Cook Inlet as Jet, Bush Plane, and Birds Fly Over:
Link to 3 Minute Video of This Evening's Sunset spanning from Volcano Mt. Spurr to "Sleeping Lady" Mount Susitna:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zaqn_dzC97Q
Concurrently taken Photo:
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