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Re: Vintage B-17 bomber that visited Sonoma County crashes near Chicago

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One of my bosses from years ago, was a ball-turret gunner on a B-24 in the Pacific. He was just a bit too young and too short to be a pilot, but he fit one of those Sperry Ball Turrets perfectly. While he certainly had a certain mental determination about him (he was head of our R&D department and an avid chess player) he was about as far from the image of a 'Marine' or Marine-like person as one could possibly get.




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Re: Vintage B-17 bomber that visited Sonoma County crashes near Chicago
By: atomicbob
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Tue, 14 Jun 11 9:09 PM
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Short of a Marine storming a beach, bomber dudes were the baddest, IMO.


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