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Old 11-29-2017, 09:16 PM
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I went to Oshkosh to work on the B-25 today and found EAA's B-17, "Aluminum Overcast tucked into the hangar for its annual inspection. I spent a little time wandering through it and sitting at the radio operater's station, the pilot's seat, and the bombardier's seat, and poking my head into the tail gunner's hatch and the belly turret. And I could not help thinking about what those young men -- just boys, many of them -- went through, and about the fact that for some of them, the inside of a B-17 was the last thing they ever saw. It seems sometimes that these old warbirds are full of ghosts.

I'm going back tomorrow morning. I'll take my camera.
I've felt emotions only from reading about those men.
Can't imagine what it's actually like being inside one of those warbirds,
and having such connection with those ghosts from the past.

Yes, photos, please! as many as you can
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