(ArtKramr) wrote:


I wore a chestpack. The tail gunner and the top turrest gunners also had
chestpacks and we wore them in our positions with no problem. We never ever
flew missions with chutes off. And in 1943 both our pilot and copilot flew with
backpacks, the rest of us wore chestpacks and once in the air never took them
of except when I had to enter the bomb bays. I couldn't fit through the bombay
access door with a chestpack on.


Arthur Kramer

Art, I remember three or four days ago you mentioned that your
escape route was through the bomb bay, here's what you said:

In the B-26 we had no escape hatch at all. The bombardier
had along path to creawl in front of the copilot then
out the bombay.

How did you work that?...or did I misunderstand something?.
--

-Gord.