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  • 1northcoin
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    @1Mike1 said:
    @1northcoin Great pics of Japan. My daughter enjoys viewing your photos and videos.

    Thanks. Much appreciated. How old is your daughter?

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    @JWP said:

    WWII tail gunner

    I think that would be a "waist gunner", not a "tail gunner".
    The plane looks smaller than a B17. Maybe a B25 ?

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    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.
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    @dcarr said:

    @JWP said:

    WWII tail gunner

    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."

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    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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    @JWP said:

    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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    @Rule556 said:

    @JWP said:

    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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    @Rule556 said:

    @JWP said:

    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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