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The B-17 Tail that Carried on Fighting

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Mossie

April 07, 2021, 07:01:52 AM
The story of Sgt. Eugene P Moran, a tail gunner who carried on fighting despite the tail of his B-17 becoming separated and survived.
https://youtu.be/fCabZdoD0OI

Some modelling ideas there. :blink: :bow:
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

scooter

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April 07, 2021, 07:03:29 AM
Quote from: Mossie on April 07, 2021, 07:01:52 AM
The story of Sgt. Eugene P Moran, a tail gunner who carried on fighting despite the tail of his B-17 becoming separated and survived.
https://youtu.be/fCabZdoD0OI

Some modelling ideas there. :blink: :bow:

And perfect JMN fodder. :wacko:
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PR19_Kit

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April 07, 2021, 07:36:27 AM
That's amazing!  :o

Wasn't there a Lanc tail gunner who came down in his turret from 15000 ft or something and only broke his ankle as the turret landed in the snow? Amazing stories of the times.
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Mossie

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April 07, 2021, 08:27:17 AM
Nicholas Alkemade.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade

IIRC he took a beating for sticking to his story as they thought the must be a spy, but when the Germans found his parachute still in the wreckage they had a healthy respect for him. He survived several close calls after the war too, I came across him in a book of mysteries when I was a youngster.
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

scooter

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April 07, 2021, 08:50:56 AM
Quote from: Mossie on April 07, 2021, 08:27:17 AM
Nicholas Alkemade.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade

IIRC he took a beating for sticking to his story as they thought the must be a spy, but when the Germans found his parachute still in the wreckage they had a healthy respect for him. He survived several close calls after the war too, I came across him in a book of mysteries when I was a youngster.

IIRC, I remember reading the Reader's Digest version when I was a kid (courtesy of my grandmother)
The F-106- 26 December 1956 to 8 August 1988
Gone But Not Forgotten

QuoteOh are you from Wales ?? Do you know a fella named Jonah ?? He used to live in whales for a while.
— Groucho Marx

My dA page: Scooternjng

Mossie

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April 07, 2021, 08:54:08 AM
Another tale I remember was in Hugh 'Cocky' Dundas' autobiography.  A pilot in his squadron had taken fire: as he was evading his goggles fell in his lap.  When he got down there was a bullet hole in his canopy where his head had been, it had snapped the strap as it passed through.
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

Mossie

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April 07, 2021, 09:07:28 AM
Quote from: scooter on April 07, 2021, 08:50:56 AM
IIRC, I remember reading the Reader's Digest version when I was a kid (courtesy of my grandmother)

I think I first read it in a friend's copy of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

The Rat

#7
April 07, 2021, 01:32:49 PM
What an experience! And PO Pat Brophy had another lucky escape from a Lancaster. Sadly, PO Andrew Mynarski died of burns after trying to free his friend before jumping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mynarski
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jcf

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April 10, 2021, 11:23:00 AM
"And perfect JMN fodder."

Not really, it's been a well known story in regular modelling circles for decades.
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