[Milsurplus] Re: Collings Foundation

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

I thought the radio operator had his own gun stowed overhead and 
deployed upward through an overhead window pointing up and to the rear.
 Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: Unserviceable but Repairable <cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org>
To: arc5 at ix.netcom.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Fri, 25 May 2007 4:44 am
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: Collings Foundation



D.S u sed....

> I have this vision of Judgement Day,
> the day when the Almighty settles all accounts:
> All the brave radio men
> who died at their posts in burning bombers,
> pointing their fingers at "restoration" groups and saying:
> "We don't count?  Our deaths didn't matter?"
>

The radio op in a B-17 manned the waist gun when under attack.
Hf radios went unattended &, as u know, vhf set was under flight
deck remote control

When the going got tough, the tough got going on the twin 50s.

    Marty the Dayton handbasket RT70 man
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