B-17

I remember and old salty chief tell about when he was in his first squadron,
at the start on the "Big War". He was on one of the side blisters on a PBY,
doing gunnery practice on a flock of Sea Gulls. He followed one right into
the Port float.When they landed, the squadron Chief got him a new float and
told him that he would be spending the weekend putting it on by himself. He
said that it took him most of the weekend to get the job done, Involved a
lot of shimming and running back and forth. On the bright side, he says that
he never shot another one!

Jack

Old Fart Rotorhead

Just saw an interesting photo in a B-24 book that I had not seen before. On
the bottom half of the twin vertical stabilizers (plainly visible from the
waist gun positions) the squadron CO had stenciled " SHOOT HERE FOR HALF
PAY".

JK


"Jack & Bev Biagini" wrote in message
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I remember and old salty chief tell about when he was in his first
squadron,
at the start on the "Big War". He was on one of the side blisters on a
PBY,
doing gunnery practice on a flock of Sea Gulls. He followed one right into
the Port float.When they landed, the squadron Chief got him a new float
and
told him that he would be spending the weekend putting it on by himself.
He
said that it took him most of the weekend to get the job done, Involved a
lot of shimming and running back and forth. On the bright side, he says
that
he never shot another one!

Jack

Old Fart Rotorhead

"dougdrivr" wrote in message
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Just saw an interesting photo in a B-24 book that I had not seen before.
On
the bottom half of the twin vertical stabilizers (plainly visible from the
waist gun positions) the squadron CO had stenciled " SHOOT HERE FOR HALF
PAY".

JK

Was mentioned here or in RAM just the other day. Resulted from careless
gunnery damage.

Tex