Joe Hart flew a B-24 bomber for the “Flying Tigers” in China during World War II. Photo provided.
“Glamour Girl” is what Lt. Joe Hart and his B-24 “Liberator” crew were going to call their World War II bomber. But they never got a chance to paint it on the nose of their four-engine plane because they were shot down by Japanese fighters over China on their second combat mission during WWII. Read the rest of this entry »
Members of the 34d Combat Cargo Unit, 328th Airlift Squadron, 14th Air Force in front of a C-47 transport plane for their graduation picture at Bowman Field, Louisville, Ky. in 1943. Lemery is standing in the back row, fifth from the left in front of the plane’s engine. Photo provided by Thomas Lemery
It was a little hard to read, but the handwritten account of Maj. Thomas Lemery’s World War II career in the China, Burma and India Theater flying supplies in a C-47 Transport to the British 14th Army in Burma was a wonderful supplement to his fading memory. Read the rest of this entry »
