I went over to Leesburg yesterday and went through the B24. Barely made it through so I decided to only look at the B17 from the outside. Couldn't help wondering how those air crews could handle the cold weather at 30,000 ft. The waist gunners were standing in front of an open window and the skin of the bombers are really only a thin sheet of aluminum and couldn't have provided any warmth inside the plane. I have to really appreciate what that generation went through. It was a real pleasure to get up close to these iconic planes. Saw someone taking a plane ride in the P51 Mustang.
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