Toastmaker
November 2nd, 2014, 11:34
I posted this over at the Quarter Moon Saloon, where I tend to hang out a lot :
This will only be significant to flight simmers. . .
While nosing around on some downloads of U.S. warbirds, I found a B-24J, named "42-Kay", 44-41056 as the repaint of an Alphasim B-24J. The creator, Jankees, described it as having been shot down over Vienna on Oct. 13, 1944.
This is the aircraft my dad was in, as top turret gunner/engineer when he bailed out of his flak damaged plane over Vienna, on Oct. 13, 1944, POW until liberation in '45.
Needless to say, I was shocked and profoundly pleased to see that I can download this aircraft and simulate flights of a generaton past !!
Of course, I sent a PM to Jankees with profuse thanks. But Yesterday, I just happened to be reading an illustrated book on the history of the 451st Bomb Grp. in WWII by Mike Hill. My father's squadron - 727 BS, was part of that BG, based at the Foggia complex of airfields in Italy.
Yesterday. . . and today I find this.
This will only be significant to flight simmers. . .
While nosing around on some downloads of U.S. warbirds, I found a B-24J, named "42-Kay", 44-41056 as the repaint of an Alphasim B-24J. The creator, Jankees, described it as having been shot down over Vienna on Oct. 13, 1944.
This is the aircraft my dad was in, as top turret gunner/engineer when he bailed out of his flak damaged plane over Vienna, on Oct. 13, 1944, POW until liberation in '45.
Needless to say, I was shocked and profoundly pleased to see that I can download this aircraft and simulate flights of a generaton past !!
Of course, I sent a PM to Jankees with profuse thanks. But Yesterday, I just happened to be reading an illustrated book on the history of the 451st Bomb Grp. in WWII by Mike Hill. My father's squadron - 727 BS, was part of that BG, based at the Foggia complex of airfields in Italy.
Yesterday. . . and today I find this.