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Aktungbby · 07-03-23, 10:34 AM

love it! Sunderlands are the only thing I can shoot down in SH II and my late uncle-in-law(age 95) flew PBY's on anti-sub patrol in WWII(Bay of Biscay) before upgrading to to Navy B-24 Liberators. My own dad, flying Air Transport Command on a battle-fatigued short-crewed B-29 (or B-24 bombers were modified as cargo planes and designated C-87s for long over-water flights.) from Dakar to Newfoundland low over the Atlantic on primer engine switches as the engineer-navigator(2nd lt.) took a shrapnel hit to the hand from a U-boat which mistakenly believed itself under strafe-attack(Azores) and opened up with its guns. The metal worked its way out of his hand sometime in the '60's, but I don't know what became of the "airloom"?!

https://amcmuseum.org/history/air-tr...t-during-wwii/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consol...erator_Express

07-03-23, 10:34 AM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,871 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	love it! Sunderlands are the only thing I can shoot down in SH II and my late uncle-in-law(age 95) flew PBY's on anti-sub patrol in WWII(Bay of Biscay) before upgrading to to Navy B-24 Liberators. My own dad, flying Air Transport Command on a battle-fatigued short-crewed B-29 (or B-24 bombers were modified as cargo planes and designated C-87s for long over-water flights.) from Dakar to Newfoundland low over the Atlantic on primer engine switches as the engineer-navigator(2nd lt.) took a shrapnel hit to the hand from a U-boat which mistakenly believed itself under strafe-attack(Azores) and opened up with its guns. The metal worked its way out of his hand sometime in the '60's, but I don't know what became of the "airloom"?! https://amcmuseum.org/history/air-tr...t-during-wwii/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consol...erator_Express __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 07-03-23 at 11:17 AM.