Subject: PROOF THAT NEOCONS ARE STUPID
From: J Haggerty
Date: 9/14/2004 7:20 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: rFN1d.41188$OZ6.16103@okepread06



ArtKramr wrote:

Martin? Isn't that the son of a bitch that built the B-26 Marauder?. That
plane
damn near killed all of us before we even got to the ETO. The Baltimore
Whore,
The B dash Crash, the flying coffin, the one a day in tampa bay and the
widowmaker.Be glad you never served in one.


And it's also credited with having the safest record of all medium
bombers by the end of the war.

JPH



Not exactly. It had the worst record of killing crews in training.So bad that
Truman confronted Martin and threatened to cancel all contracts. It had the
best record of surviving enemy fire, but accidents continued in landings and
take offs of any plane.Well the A-20 was almost as bad. Did you ever fly in
either?


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