I told him that… He’s such a nudge. Yes, He’s one of the big silly guys. He/they do inpections all over the plant, so you probably just don’t notice when he’s around at other times.
Ignatz
December 22, 2004, 2:03am
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My now deceased father flew as a bombadier in a B-24 Liberator on Missions over Italy and Germany (I think from Corsica, but cannot remember for certain). Anyway, one of the things I remember him saying was that good metal was in great demand because people sought it to “sit on” while on missions to avoid being shot in the butt (from anti-aircraft guns I guess). He said that in one Poker game he witnessed that a good piece of flat metal was used to call a $50.00 dollar raise. The recent reports of American soldiers in Iraq getting in trouble for taking metal from Iraqi scrapyards made me think about this and raised several questions I had never before thought to ask:
Was this a common practice during the War?
Why would “another” piece of metal make any difference with regard to a projectile that had already penetrated the fusalage of the airplane?
Also, although this is not the OP question why is it that most of the movies and documenteries I see concerning WWII bombing talk about B-19’s and B29’s, but don’t mention the B-24? Was this a rare or “booring” aircraft?
A flying WWII colonel I knew called it “hubcapping” because he actually used a steel automobile hubcap.
I’ve heard it was common for Soviet fighter pilots to “borrow” iron frying pans, too.
