Meant to post this earlier.
My dad learned to fly in the Army Air Corps during WWII.
Flew transport over the Burma Hump.
Here's a pic of him on the tarmac in India holding a leopard kitten.
Some of the guys put an old motorcycle together and would race it down the tarmac.
He did it one time and that was the first and last time he ever rode.
They had some P51 Mustangs at the field that he got to fly.
As I remember, he told me he buzzed the Taj Mahal with it.
But according to one of my younger brothers....
We'll see what my other sibs remember.
My dad learned to fly in the Army Air Corps during WWII.
Flew transport over the Burma Hump.
Here's a pic of him on the tarmac in India holding a leopard kitten.
Some of the guys put an old motorcycle together and would race it down the tarmac.
He did it one time and that was the first and last time he ever rode.
They had some P51 Mustangs at the field that he got to fly.
As I remember, he told me he buzzed the Taj Mahal with it.
But according to one of my younger brothers....
He was reprimanded for buzzing a herd of cattle (with the P-51).
I thought the Taj Mahal was done in the C-47.
He lost the C-47 antenna (hung on a wire under the plane) when buzzing a jungle landing strip and it was returned to him in the back of a jeep.
The buzzing (of) the landing field was necessary so the ground troops could "secure" the landing strip.
I thought the Taj Mahal was done in the C-47.
He lost the C-47 antenna (hung on a wire under the plane) when buzzing a jungle landing strip and it was returned to him in the back of a jeep.
The buzzing (of) the landing field was necessary so the ground troops could "secure" the landing strip.
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