You could hear the roar of a P-51 Mustang at the Chester County Airport on August 30, 2010. It was there as part of the Wings of Freedom tour.
The WWII crews and pilots of those aircraft flew into the path of anti-aircraft shrapnel and 20 mm cannon of the German Messerschmitt fighters with nothing but their flying and fighting skill for protection. They are all heroes.
A local man, (sorry I didn't write his name down) made models of the B-17 and B-24 that matched the paint on the actual aircraft sitting on the tarmac.
Some boys were manning the waist gunner position in the B-24. The WWII crew members were mostly just a few years older than those boys.
The young man sitting behind the guns of the B-17 below would have been a following German fighter pilot’s primary target.
The reason for the long delay of the photos is that I used a Nikon FE film camera. I send my film to Mpix. The wait is mailing the film.
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