Warbirds - Tales From Above

Budd Wentz and Klaus Hahn have themselves quite a day...... TIME STAMPS Intro - 0:00 - 1:35 Show Content - 2:00 - Finish LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Last Mission - wbuddwentz.com LCDR John Hiltz - Military Hall of Honor Budd Wentz Portrait Gallery Dogfights - Luftwaffe's Deadliest Mission - History Channel Vintage News - Sonderkommando Elbe - By Brad Smithfield

After completing 35 missions over occupied Europe, Robert Trimble isn't done yet. TIME STAMPS Intro - 0:00 - 1:57 Show Content - 2:22 - Finish LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal The Daily Mail - The WW2 American B-24 Pilot Turned Spy - By Daniel Bates DOD MWR Libraries - Beyond the Call - By Lee Trimble and Jeremy Dronfield 493rd Bomb Group Mission List Rum Rummer - B24BestWeb.com The Last but the Best - 493rd Bomb Group Website - Debach Pronunciation Captain Robert Matlock "Bob" Trimble - Findagrave.com Email Me: [email protected]

What started as a promotion for Patreon turned into a "how to" regarding how my show is produced. Many folks have asked in the past about the nuts and bolts of Warbirds, and the general steps involved in getting a podcast going. This one may or may not be for you. There's no traditional "story" in this one. But for those that want a deep look in to how I publish each episode, as well as the infrastructure involved, this is for you. Time Stamps Intro: 0:00 - 10:47 Show Content: 10:53 - Finish LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Scarlett 2i2 Audio Interface ATR Microphone - USB/XLR Interface Sound Assured Pop-Filter Rotatable Microphone Arm XLR Cable - 6 Foot Audacity Recording Software Auphonic Productions - File Rendering and Processing Envato Market - Formerly Audio Jungle (Music Selections) Email Me: [email protected]

There's more to this guys story than is normally published. Apparently, people just like to report the shock and awe. That's fine and all, but on this show, we dig. We give the reasons why this man could pull-off such a feat. And with style and ease to-boot. TIME STAMPS Intro - 0:00 - 4:00 Show Content - 4:24 - Finish LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Captain William Overstreet - The Independent - By Phil Davison To Fly and Fight - Interview with Captain William Overstreet Bonanza Plane Goes Under Eiffel Tower - Robert Moriarty In case you're wondering, this guy is a veteran combat pilot of Vietnam. If fact, he was the youngest to fly the F-4. The running joke is that this is a mandatory maneuver when leaving Paris. Email me: [email protected]

Their name was coined not only for their losses, but for the psychological strain that they were forced to endure. TIME STAMPS Intro - 0:00 - 2:12 Show Content - 2:36 - Finish LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal National WWII Museum New Orleans - The 100th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group - The Ragged Irregulars Email Me: [email protected]

How long was the longest dogfight? It's debatable, but this one is certainly in the running. Captain Elmer Royce Williams takes on 6 Migs by himself. That, of course, is what the plethora of internet articles will tell you. While Williams is certainly a hero of hero's, he received some great help from some men that are rarely talked about. TIME STAMPS Intro - 0:00 - 5:51 Mail Call - 6:36 - 14:19 Show Content - 14:23 - Finish LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Homeland Magazine - Captain E. Royce Williams - The Forgotten Hero - By CJ Machado The Wall of Valor Project - John Davidson Middleton The Wall of Valor Project - David M. Rowlands Panther vs. Mig - Inside the Cold War Dogfight that Officially Never Happened - By Marc Liebman Email Me: [email protected]

None of these airmen should have survived the war, yet they all lived to tell their story. TIME STAMPS Intro - 0:00 - 01:33 Mail Call - 02:52 - 07:45 Show Content - 08:11 - Finish LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Wordpress.com - RCAF No. 403 Squadron - Pilot Officer's James Elmer Abbott's Miraculous Escape Vandruff.com - Jean Vandruff Autobiogrophy Excerpt An Anonymous Czech Prisoner who Saved an American B-17 Bomber in WWII - Outono.net Militarytimes.com - Michael Arooth James Howell Howard - CMOHS.org James H. Howard - Homeofheros.com - By Andrew A. Rooney Alan Magee - Wikipedia Email Me: [email protected]

Don't look down. But bring your chute just in case... LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Warhistoryonline.com - James Allen Ward - By Russell Hughes Victoriacrossonline.co.uk - Norman Cyril Jackson VC Mail Call - Chesterton Radio - YouTube Email Me: [email protected]

Wrapping up our week at the Reno Air Races, and firing on all cylinders. LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Lonnie Ortega Aviation Art Email Me: [email protected]

It's the last Reno Air Races. We were there, and received a whole lot of the unexpected. LINKS and REFERENCES Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Lonnie Ortega Aviation Art Email Me: [email protected] Mail Call - AFRS WWII Radio

Take the worst airplane you can find along with a horrible scenario. Then pair it with three heroic pilots, and see what happens. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Warfare History Network - Heroic Airacobras of the Cactus Air Force - By Patrick J. Chaisson Email Me: [email protected]

You'll find the greatest men in the most unlikely of places..... LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Email Me: [email protected]

Take those pictures and cut those birds to fit. Meet the airmen that helped gather the intel so our boys could take back France, and meet one man who helped keep those birds in the air. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Historyofwar.org - 10th Photo Reconnaissance Group Patton's Eyes in the Sky - By Tom Ivie Email Me: [email protected]

The second installment of the P2 Neptune and their crew during the Cold War. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! JIM LUND CONTACT INFORMATION Lake Tables by Phoenix Aero Jim Lund [email protected] 701-388-2564 (text only) Email Me: [email protected]

Sub-hunting over the Med has never been so much fun.... LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! JIM LUND CONTACT INFORMATION Lake Tables by Phoenix Aero Jim Lund [email protected] 701-388-2564 (text only) Email Me: [email protected]

Here comes the second half of Movie Reviews, and I even threw a sound byte somewhere in here for a little comedy-relief. Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Email Me: [email protected]

It's time to analyze some of Hollywoods flicks. But let's be real, some we watch simply for the airplanes, some are the greatest movies of all-time, and others we wish would be burned in a dumpster fire. Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Email Me: [email protected]

Rudolph Hess makes a twilight solo flight across allied lines and over the North Sea to try and negotiate peace. What are the odds of his success? Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Email Me: [email protected] REFERENCES 80 Years on, the Mysterious Flight of Rudolph Hess - By Dr. James Crossland Will We Ever Know Why Rudolph Hess Flew to Scotland? - By Brian Handwerk The Rudolph Hess Flight - 10 Conspiracies - The History Press

Boy, it sure would have been nice to hear this man's voice in our aviation headsets. At least we got to hear him on TV for more than 3 decades. Enjoy this weeks early release of LTJG Bob Barker. There's also a surprise celebrity at the end. Spoiler alert, don't click on any references below :) Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Email Me: [email protected] REFERENCES Avgeekery.com - The Unexpected Naval Aviator - Bill Walton Deland Naval Air Museum Aviation Geek Club - Dario Leone

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Join me not only for the return of the show, but for my Grandfathers return to the Reno Air Races after over 41 years. During this episode, we not only experience some great racing, but we were graced with learning about a wonderful man and airmen, Lt. Col. Robert Friend. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!!!!!!! Email Me: [email protected] Robert J. Friend, Tuskegee Pilot who led UFO Project, By Sam Roberts Robert Friend (pilot) - Wikipedia

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Thousands of pilots flew The Hump during the war. Robert Lineberger walked it. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES Through PATREON!!!!!!!! Email Me: [email protected] Lincoln-Times News - Pilot Lineberger Flew the Hump in WWII - By Will Kennedy News and Record - Pilot Survives Crash in Himalayas - By Ned Harrison The Hump - Wikipedia

Jay Zeamer and crew fly Old 666 on a recon mission in the Pacific, and end up being the most highly-decorated air crew of WW2. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!!!!!!! Email Me: [email protected] Pacificwrecks.com - B17-E "Lucy" - 41-2666 Pacificwrecks.com - Captain Jay Zeamer, Jr. Suicide Run - The Final Flight of Old 666 - History.net - By Bob Drury and Tom Clavin Wikipedia - Old 666

WW2 Veteran John Murray has 4 engines for his flight tonight. 3 of them catch fire and there's no land in sight. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!!! Email Me: [email protected] Gander Airport Historical Society - Civil Aeronautics Board Accident Report Flying Tiger Line - Wikipedia TigerintheSea.com - Crew and Passengers - By Eric Lindner Captain John Murray - By Pierre-Andre Reymond American Heritage - Ditching in the North Atlantic Tiger in the Sea - A Remarkable True Story - By Mark Shiffer Pressreader.com - Irish Daily Mail - The Miracle Pilot Flight Crew - Flying Tiger 923 - Flyingtiger923.com Flying Tiger 923 and Raging North Atlantic - Pierre-Andre - YouTube

Today we honor the boys that instantly became men when they chose to falsify their birth certificates in order to fight in our stead. In this research I also stumble upon a B-24 event that will hopefully never be forgotten. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!!! Email me: [email protected] Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund - Dan Bullock Newyorktimes.com - Marine, 15, Killed in Vietnam - By Thomas A. Johnson 458bg.com - Crew 33 - Spaven

They kept them in the air.... LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!!! Email Me: [email protected] Master Sgt. Ernie Barber - 392nd Bomb Group - B24.net Staff Sgt. William Dowling - 392nd Bomb Group - B24.net

A P-61 crashed on the side of Mount Cyclops in 1945. 2nd Lt. Southfield gives us a good story about how that happened. 76 years later, the corroded Black Widow is sitting in Pennsylvania. It isn't airworthy..... yet...... LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!! Email Me: [email protected] Mid-Atlantic Air Museum - Black Widow Restoration Project DONATE to the P-61 Black Widow Project Pacificwrecks.com - P-61B-1-NO Black Widow Serial Number 42-39445 History.net - P-61 Returns From the Jungle - By Dick Smith The Morning Call - 6 to Embark on Quest for Black Widow - By Dan Pearson Googlebooks - Hidden Warbirds - By Nicholas Veronico Newspapers.com - Binghamton Press - February 26th, 1945 - Brother, Sister Wounded, Meet in New Guinea World of Warbirds - P-61 Black Widow - By Bryan Pearce

Those tiny white-caps are bigger than your yellow dot on the water. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!!!! Email Me: [email protected] Pacificwrecks.com - TBD-1 Devastator, Bureau Number 0335 - Tail 6-T-6 Harold Frederick Dixon - Findagrave.com Louis Zamperini - Wikipedia Unbroken - A WW2 Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption: By Laura Hillenbrand Mission4Today.com - YE-ZB "Hayrake" Radio Navigation We Flew Alone: By Alan C. Carey

This one is not often talked about, especially in the United States. It was never as popular as the Normandy invasion has become, but it proved to be just as important to the success of D-Day. Ground invasion aside, there was quite an air battle raging overhead. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!!!!! Email Me: [email protected] Government of Canada - In the Skies Above: Dieppe, August 19, 1942 - By Major William March Airsoc.com - RAF 331 - Norwegian Squadron Wikipedia - Dieppe Raid Lufwaffe.cz - Battle Over Dieppe Dieppe - The Greatest Air Battle - By Norman Franks Canadian Military History - Air Operations at Dieppe - An After Action Report - By Trafford Leigh-Mallory

Ed Freeman and Bruce Crandall volunteer to plow into Landing Zone X-ray fourteen times, and under intense enemy fire, all to rescue stranded cavalry. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Purple Heart Foundation - Vietnam War Hero - The Untold Story of Army Capt. Ed W. Freeman Snopes - Captain Ed Freeman - Medal of Honor Winner - By David Mikkelson Business Insider - Jim Morrison's Dad Had a Hand in Starting the Vietnam War - By Ward Carroll Ed Freeman - Wikipedia

Jimmy Stewart. He failed more times than you can count. But nobody counts the failures. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Elephant Journal - Why Top Gun Has One of the Best Scenes You'll Ever See - By Kevin Macku DenofGeek - Jimmy Stewart and the WW2 Mission That Almost Broke Him - By David Crow Top Gun - A Confidence Problem - YouTube

This week we talk about a phenomenon during WW2 that nobody could ever seem to explain. Did the entire 415th Night Fighter Group go crazy??? Was what they saw real? I'll let you be the judge. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Off by roughly 2 TRILLION.... AGAIN!!! - The Way I Heard It - By Mike Rowe History.com - Mysterious UFO's Seen By WWII Airman Still Unexplained - By Adam Janos Airspacemag.com - What Were the Mysterious "Foo Fighters" Sighted By WWII Night Flyers? - By Zoe Krasney Sofrep.com - Foo Fighters Over WW2 and the Birth of the American Love Affair with Aliens - By Alex Hollings

Unlike the sports icons we see today, Nile Kinnick was one of the most humble athletes and one of the most dedicated patriots this country has ever seen. I even track down a few relatives that have some stories of their own. They share their gratitude about how the blood that runs in their veins has ultimately changed their lives for the better. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Nile Kinnick - Wikipedia The New York Times - June 10th, 1943 - Nile Kinnick Killed - Iowa Hawkeyes Iowa Magazine - Kinnick's Final Days - By Josh O'Leary Iowa Digital Library - Nile Kinnick Correspondence - June-August 1942 Also Included: Stories from Josh and Troy Gilbert - Relatives of Nile Kinnick

This is a big one. It took a lot of heavy research to tie all of this together. 4 months-worth, in fact. Little friends were battling over Mayen, Germany during one of the biggest European Theater Operations of the war. And the neat part is, my Uncle was right there in the thick of it. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] The Liberator Men of Old Buc - By Andrew Low P-51 Mustang Combat Reports P-47 Thunderbolt Combat Reports

Today we focus on a B-17 crew that sure did love their beer. Enough to paint their love for it on the nose of their bird. LINKS & REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] B17FlyingFortress.de - High Life 100thBombGroup.com - Joseph C. Harper Molsoncoorsblog.com - Here's what we know about the Miller High Life Lady - By Dave Herrewig NationalWW2Museum.org - How WW2 Saved American Beer Brewing

It happened whether we want to think about it or not. Today, I share a few stories where sabotage reared it's ugly head during WW2, along with one man that helped to solve a long-standing design flaw with the B-24 that would cause every man on board to instantly perish. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] The Daily Item - The B-24 Had History of Flight Explosions - By Joseph A. Diblin Time Magazine - The Hidden Risk Faced by Female Pilots During WW2 - By Olivia B. Waxman Gremlin - Wikipedia

This week we remember the men that helped to keep the crew whole so that they could get off the ground. Commonly referred to as "floaters", they would fill-in when a crew member was sick. Some didn't have to.... but they did anyway. REFERENCES and LINKS Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Denver Post - Frank Lablotier - By Claire Martin Sun-Telegraph - Historic B-17 roars over Front Range - By Dave Faries Military.com - Sgt. Maynard H. Smith - By Bethanne Kelly Patrick A Gunners Tale - 100th Bomb Group - By Karen Abeyasekere

Many on social media would have you believe that a B-17 can land without a tail. They would like you to think that a commonly circulated photo of an airborne Fortress with the tail missing succeeded in landing with zero casualties. This is far from the truth, and if we're not careful we will misremember their real story over time. Today, we remember the men that sacrificed their lives in this crippled bird. REFERENCES and LINKS Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] American Air Museum in Britain - 42-37781 - Silver Dollar 384th Bomb Group (Heavy) Website - B-17G - 42-37781 The Combat Box - Wikipedia The Arrowhead Club 2015 - "Ozzie's Story" - By Cindy Farrar Bryan

Twelve brave souls aboard a PB4Y-2 Privateer perish in the sea outside Singapore on June 1st, 1945. Hear the story of their sacrifice along with one remaining Liberator that was forced crawl home over 1000 miles with zero air-support. REFERENCES and LINKS Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Beauran O'Kane, History of a Privateer from VPB-106 The Story of One Eleven - By Robert L. Wolpert Pacific Wrecks - PB4Y-2 Privateer - Bureau Number 59563 Modeling Madness - Story By Robert L. Wolpert Pacific Wrecks - PB4Y-1 Liberator - Bureau Number 38917

Frank Speer is making a strafing run inches above the ground. This one run will make his next several months very challenging. REFERENCES & LINKS Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] The Morning Call - "I Could Feel the Bullets Hitting my Plane" American Air Museum - Frank E. Speer Wikipedia - Li'l Abner Book Review - The Debden Warbirds: The Fourth Fighter Group in World War Two - By Frank E. Speer

Eino Alve and his mighty crew of Shack Rabbits plow through 35 missions. How they did it, of course, is their own unique and nail-biting story. REFERENCES & LINKS Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] The Airway Beacon - Wikipedia Remembrances of the Shack Rabbit - By Eino V. Alve Weather Underground - Lincoln, NE

One of the best dogfighters we ever saw. Regarding Mustang drivers, some might even say he was THE best. REFERENCES & LINKS Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Preddy Memorial Foundation Wings God Gave My Soul - By Joseph W. Noah George Preddy - Top Mustang Ace - By Joseph Noah and Samuel L. Sox, Jr. O'Henry Magazine - An Ordinary American Boy - By Ross Howell, Jr. Synopsis of George Preddy - Top Mustang Ace - By Joe Noah The Hall of Valor Project - George Earl Preddy - Sightline Media Group

The real story of The All American..... without all the embellishments. We don't need it dressed up with comic book characters and unicorns. The real story is heroic enough on its own. LINKS AND REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] The Hour Has Come - By Thomas F. Gulley Warbird Digest - WWII's B-17 "All American", Separating Fact from Fiction - By Anthony Adams Airscape Magazine - "Down in One Pieces" B-17 Flying Fortress - All American - 41-24406 B-17 "All American" (414th Squadron, 97BG) - Site maintained by Doug Cook American Air Museum in Britain - Mellville G Boyd, Jr. B-17 Flying Fortress - Joan of Arc/Flaming Mayme - 41-24477 American Air Museum in Britain - 42-30051 - "Nevada Wildcat"

Turns out our family has ANOTHER bird out there that escaped the chopping block over 75 years ago. It's hidden. But we found it. LINKS AND REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] AAIR - Aviation Archeology - PBY Aircraft Airframe History List - 59763 - Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives - Crash of a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer Near Safford: 2 Killed -

The accident board determined the absolute cause of the crash. But we dig deep on this one, and pose a long-shot theory that there COULD have been another cause. LINKS & REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Hutchison News - February 17th, 1950 - Loren Grover Obituary Vintage Wings of Canada Vapor Trails - Robert Jaques - Naval Aviation News - December 1997

They were the first, and everyone forgot them..... LINKS & REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] The Sad Fate of a Remarkable B-24 - Joseph Connor American Air Museum in Britain - 4123728 The Forgotten Bomber that Broke the Memphis Belle's Record First - Morgan Deane Memphis Belle vs. Hot Stuff - Scott Orr Hell's Angels vs. Memphis Belle American Air Museum in Britain - George Anthony Eisel Military Wikia - Memphis Belle

They don't build them like they used to.... and I'm not talking about airplanes. LINKS AND REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] The Story of Maloney's Pony - First Fighter Wing Association Paying Tribute to a Legend - Vic Johnson Strafing, The Most Perilous Game - Earl Mazo Ditching Tests of a 1/9 size Model of the Army P-38 - George A. Jarvis and Gibson A. Cederborg The Camargue - A Short Guide Liberation of Paris - Wikipedia

The unselfish act of P-51 pilot, Billie Harris, finally gains recognition 62 years after giving his life in occupied France. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Joyce Ann Ashley - 354th Fighter Group Tribute - Billie D. Harris 354th Fighter Group - Wikipedia On The Road: The Longest Wait - CBS News

Join me as we go on an English pub crawl with the WW2 Airmen of RAF Biggin Hill. LINKS and REFERENCES Feeling Generous? Donate today to help keep the show going! Donate Through Venmo Donate Through PayPal Receive BONUS EPISODES through PATREON!! Email Me: [email protected] Biggin on the Bump - Bob Ogley Spitfire Crash - Kings Arms - Aviation Safety Network The Queen's Head - Four Square City Guide Bombs, Bees, and Bravery - BBLHS Biggin Hill - Wikipedia Seeking RAF Biggin Hill - Biggin Hill Memorial Museum