World War II Pilot

This is the story of a man who joins the Army before World War II to fulfill his dream of becoming a pilot. Six months later the U.S. is at war. Learn how he becomes an Air Force B-26 pilot, falls in love at first sight & gets engaged before he’s shipped out to Europe, becomes Captain of his crew, is shot down on his next to last mission, is captured by Germans, put on a train to concentration camps, escapes, joins the French Underground and lives to join Patton’s 3rd Army liberating France.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Chapter 12 The Magnificent Flying Machines

At Enid we got about 50 hours of training in the TB25 also known as the AT-24. No more open cockpit, 2 seater planes for us, this was an exciting plane! They ones we had were 2 engine, dual controls that could hold a 3-5 man crew. The nose of the plane was what they called the "greenhouse" made of plexi-glass to give the bombardiers as good a view of their target as possible. Of course we didn't have any crew we were still learning to fly.