Re: Captured B-25, Rear View

Duwop wrote:
On Aug 3, 12:42 pm, "George Z. Bush" <georgezb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Duwop wrote:
On Aug 3, 10:35 am, "George Z. Bush" <georgezb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
eyeball wrote:
On Aug 3, 7:15 am, Rob Arndt <teuton...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2087/captb25da4.jpg

Rob

Looks like a captured B-24 ;)

Exactly....the vertical stabilizers of the B-25 were angular, not
rounded
IIRC.

And almost no -25's in the ETO, they were all in the PTO.

Seems to me that we had at least one wing of them in the 12th AF based on
Corsica or Sardinia. I suppose that they were technically part of the MTO
rather than the ETO, but bombing targets in the Brenner Pass or in
southern
Austria ought to have qualified them being called committed to the war
against the Axis in Europe.

George Z.- Hide quoted text -

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Which is why I fudged with the almost, I thought I remembered some
associated with North Africa/Med but it was hazy, thanks for the
reminder. Yeah, I'd qualify anything that fought against the Axis as
being part of the ETO, some places just being on the periphery.

Was the unit in action to the end of the war, do you know?

Yes, AAMOF, and the reason I know is that I was flying with the 4th TCSq at
the time and we were tasked with moving the entire unit to a base on the
west coast of the Adriatic up near Venice.....I can't remember the name of
it (maybe Ancona) but if I saw a map of Italy, it'd probably come back to
me.

Incidentally, for those of you who were old enough to be "Terry and the
Pirates" fans on the comic pages of our newspapers, there was a character in
it named Flip Corkin who was based on a real live person. That person was a
guy named Phil Cochran and he was a bird colonel and the CO of the B-25
outfit whose gear we moved to the mainland. The goonie bird I was assigned
to on that particular mission happened to have the unit's Officers' Club
furniture and supplies stowed aboard....the reason I mention it is that I
owe them for a bottle of Egyptian beer that I brought up to the cockpit,
stuck up against the side sliding window that I had cracked open about two
or three inches and, after about 15 minutes or so at 10,000', opened and
drank while crossing the Appenines. I was in the right seat so it didn't
matter much if my vision was a little blurry...........

George Z.


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