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[jamesnmlaw]

Originally Posted by pavulon

yup...B29 w/ #500 bombs. another:

See the little tube running along the top of the fuselage? That's how you got from the front of the plane to the rear - passage tube or something like that. My father was an 18 yr. old radio-gunner on B29s in Korea. Said the tube was the worse part of the ride as you had to go thru the tube to get to the pressurized rear of the plane. Came to haunt him 50 yrs later when he needed an MRI and freaked at the MRI tube. That's when I learned about him crawling thru the tube when the plane was hit.

What was I doing at 18? Trying to find out if Patty's red drapes matched the carpet - sure did. Army boots were for punkin' and stompin'.

God bless everyone who served!

Random pic: my father right after flight training.

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[daepp]

Originally Posted by jamesnmlaw

Random pic: my father right after flight training.

War is hell - sorry he suffered from his service. Thank God for men like your old man!

From a static display at March Field in CA








p.s. Wasn't that the tube that the Yossarian character whined about in Catch 22?

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Originally Posted by gatotom

daepp, thanks for taking down memory lane at the Academy, here are a few of mine.
first day

Great shots of your boy Tom. Congratulations, and good luck to you son.

...and Beat Army!

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Originally Posted by joescoolcustms

Is that the Allegheny tunnel in Pennsylvania?

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Originally Posted by daepp

p.s. Wasn't that the tube that the Yossarian character whined about in Catch 22?

Nope, that was a B-25.

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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

Nope, that was a B-25.

Interesting. Either I'm misremembering or Heller was confused. I thought the tail gunner character was complaining about the long tube he had to climb through in the event of bailing out.

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