B-17 Flight - WWII Adventure

[Walt's Daughter]

http://www.wwiiadventure.com/

 

A life changing experience you’ll spend 36 hours reliving the life of a B-17 World War II aviator. Imagine climbing into a B-17 aircraft and traveling back in time to 1944 about to embark on your final bombing mission over Nazi Germany. You’ll be transported back in time from the 7AM mission briefing through the amazing realism of the world’s most advanced flight simulation.

 

It’s 1944 and you’re on an authentic mission. You’ve been through the briefing where targets and casualties are anticipated. You feel the tension our fly boys felt as they contemplated the uncertainty of their fate.

 

The experience is so real that you’ll find yourself ducking as enemy fighters zip by mere feet from the nose of your plane. Your hair is literally blown back when the bomb doors open.

 

And then it’s time to strap on a parachute and board an authentic B-17 aircraft for a real flight. Fully immersed in 1944 you’re living the day of a real B-17 flyer. Your adrenaline is guaranteed to rush as you take off for your bombing run. The sights, sounds and even the smells of this extended flight make this a once in a lifetime adventure.

 

You won’t just understand what it’s like to be a WWII aviator you will actually be that aviator. You will know so much more about what our fathers and grandfathers lived through. For this moment, time will stand still.

[colinhotham]

What an experience it would be and a great link. I've just bought a lottery ticket M1!

Colin.

[CaptO]

I've just bought a lottery ticket M1!

 

At $1,941.00, you would need a lottery ticket!

[moose]

The real McCoy......

[verow]

The crew of the Memphis Belle.

 

First, here the crew:

* Pilot: Capt.. Robert K. Morgan (Asheville, NC)

* Co-Pilot: Capt.. Jim Verini (New Haven, CT)

* Bombardier: Capt. Vincent B. Evans (Henderson, TX)

* Browser: Capt. Charles B. Leighton (Flint, MI)

* Radio Operator: Sergeant Robert J. Hanson (Spokane, WA)

* Turret gunner of dorsal, Sergeant Leviticus Dillon (Providence, VA), Sergeant Eugene Adkins (Johnson City, TN), Sergeant Harold P. Loch (Green Bay, WI)

* Gunner Left: Sergeant Clarence E. Winchell (AOK Park, IL)

* Gunner Law: Sergeant E. Scott Mills (Kingswood, WV), Sergeant Casimir A. Nastal (Detroit, MI)

* Ventral turret gunner from: Cecil H. Scott (Arapahoe, NC)

* Tail gunner: Sergeant John P. Quinlam (Yonker, NY)

* Leader Mechanic: Master Sergeant Joseph M. Giambrone (Hulneville, PA).

 

The 25 missions they have accomplished:

Mission / Target Date Destination

1 - 7 Nov. 42 Brest, France Base U-Boot

2 - 9 Nov. 42 St-Nazaire, France Base U-Boot

3 - 17 Nov. 42 St-Nazaire, France Base U-Boot

4 - Dec. 6. 42 Lille, France Locomotive Factory (Here , is my city)

5 - December 20 42 Romilly Sur Seine, France German Airfield

6 - 3 Jan. 43 St-Nazaire, France Base U-Boot

7 - Jan 13. 43 Lille, France Locomotive Factory

8 - Jan 23. 43 Lorient, France Base U-Boot

9 - Feb. 4. 43 Emden, Germany factory of war (Enterprise FORD)

10 - Feb. 14. 43 Hamm, Germany railway marshalling yard

11 - Feb. 16. 43 St-Nazaire, France Base U-Boot

12 - Feb. 26. 43 Wilhelmshaven, Germany Naval Base

13 - Feb. 27. 43 Brest, France Base U-Boot

14 - March 6 43 Lorient, France Base U-Boot

15 - March 12 43 Rouen, France railway marshalling yard

16 - March 13 43 Abbeville, France Aerodrome

17 - March 22 43 Wilhelmshaven, Germany Naval Base

18 - March 28 43 Rouen, France railway marshalling yard

19 - April 5 43 Antwerp, Belgium factory of aircraft engines

20 - Apr 16 43 Lorient, France Base U-Boot

21 - Apr 17 43 Bremen, Germany factory Focke-Wulf

22 - 1st May 43 St-Nazaire, France Base U-Boot

23 - May 4 43 Antwerp, Belgium factory trucks FORD

24 - May 15 43 Wilhelmshaven, Germany Shipyard

25 - May 17 43 Lorient, France Base U-Boot

 

Its historical data:

The Memphis Belle, is a B-17F-10-BO Flying Fortress with the serial number: 41-24485. It was part of the unit 24th Bomb Squadron (H), 91st Bomb Group (H), 1st Combat Wing, 1st Air Division, 8th Bomber Command. Its land base was Bassingbourn, England.

 

His story:

The Memphis Belle is the name of a bomber B-17 'Flying Fortress' from the Second World War, whose many films and stories recount the exploits. This was the first plane, and the first crew to successfully complete 25 missions, meaning at the time a return ticket to the United States. This device is now kept at Memphis

 

And some pictures:

The basis of Bassingbourn in England:

http://www.flyingfortress.ws/images/b17pic...gbourn_1955.jpg

The Memphis Belle and its crew:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm..._Belle_crew.jpg

The logo of the Memphis Belle:

http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/M...elle%20Lady.gif

The Memphis Belle:

http://www.outpost-164.biz/images/store/ai...belle_small.jpg

 

Vee

[verow]

Hell's Angels and the beautiful Menphis have completed their 25 missions.

 

but the "Hell's Angels" who finished, albeit a few days before his first round 25 missions.

 

1 / "HELLS ANGELS" serial number 41-24577 358 BS 303 BG who finished his round on 13 May 1943

2 / DELTA REBEL "serial number 41-25077 323 BS 91 BG who finished his round on 15 May 1943.

3 / "MEMPHIS BELLE" serial number 41-24485 324 BS 91BG who finished his round on 19 May 1943

 

http://www.303rdbg.com/h-ha-name.html

 

http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/001.pdf

 

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/M/Molesworth.htm

 

good reading

 

Vee

[Walt's Daughter]

Hey Moose, I may not be able to fly the thing, but WE DO have an autographed copy of that photo. There, eat your out!

 

We get a lot of comments on it because it's hanging on a wall in our store.

 

Hey Colin, better frame that lottery ticket!

[colinhotham]

I've flown in a lot of different aicraft since joining the RAF in 1955, but I think a lottery ticket is the nearest I'll

ever come to a B17 flight M1!

 

Colin.

[Walt's Daughter]

Hubby and I were talking about this the other night at the pub. Kept saying it's too bad we can't do this, since in most likelihood, we will be in Georgia around the same time, viisting with our daughter. That's about as close as we will get too. Sigh! Bring me my drool cup! You want me to get you one too?

 

I've flown in a lot of different aicraft since joining the RAF in 1955, but I think a lottery ticket is the nearest I'll

ever come to a B17 flight M1!

 

Colin.