Subject: Which Military Service is best?
From: nt (Krztalizer)
Date: 9/8/2004 3:52 PM Pacific Standard Time

Art, you never took over the stick during climbout? I used to pester my
pilots
constantly about getting up front - it was a running joke with them.

Interesting about the Norden,

Conditions permitting I got a good many hours of stick time in the B-26, C-47,
C-46 and a Feisler Storch we had captured and used as a pufdl;e jumper around
Schleissheim. Lotta fun. But doing a final in the B-26 at 110 IAS at a steep
approach angle to the runway could curl your hair.

I suppose gazing down through the rubber eyepiece of the Norden at an
approaching bridge would be somewhat less fun, and with quite a bit more
pucker.

Especially when the view of the bridge is paritally obscured by big black
bursts of flak with hot red centers. (sheesh)


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer