bombers over burbank!!!! - Beyond Tiki

T TikiGardener Member 1st website dedicated to Tiki Gardens Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1368	T TikiGardener Posted posted on Sat, May 21, 2005 7:47 PM The head Librarian at my high school library flew on B-17's. If you look at the pic from the B-24, you'll notice the pilot and co-pilot wearing nice relatively sound insulated headsets. He had no such luxuries. It was awkward, because it was a library, but you had to speak very loudly to him. Apparently he could STILL hear the engines humming in his ears. My eighth grade history teacher would recount how he and his buddies would count the number of holes shot in B-29s returning from missions over Japan. That and watching some of them ditch in the ocean just short of the airfield.

The head Librarian at my high school library flew on B-17's. If you look at the pic from the B-24, you'll notice the pilot and co-pilot wearing nice relatively sound insulated headsets.

He had no such luxuries. It was awkward, because it was a library, but you had to speak very loudly to him. Apparently he could STILL hear the engines humming in his ears.

My eighth grade history teacher would recount how he and his buddies would count the number of holes shot in B-29s returning from missions over Japan. That and watching some of them ditch in the ocean just short of the airfield.

Post #160635 by TikiGardener on Sat, May 21, 2005 7:47 PM