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    1944 Marauder

    Interesting article in the June 8-9 Wall Street Journal on the B-26 Marauder in support of D-day. The 1944 Marauder, like ours, was known for getting you home.
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    One of my mentors was a B-24 waist gunner stationed in England.

    We had a common hobby, restoring WWI and WWII military rifles. He is also a Car Guy.

    He had a shop at his house and I used to go over there to practice our hobbies.

    He was a business partner of my father and mentored me in the business.

    I also worked with his son and we keep in touch.

    When I was in my late 20's he told some of his experiences as a waist gunner.

    The best advise he ever gave me was - "Never let the Bastard's get you down".
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    Make sure to follow the Wings of Freedom tours all across the country from the Collings Foundation. One of the most awesome things I did was take one of their B-17 and B-24 rides. Totally awesome!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BUCKWHEAT View Post
    Interesting article in the June 8-9 Wall Street Journal on the B-26 Marauder in support of D-day. The 1944 Marauder, like ours, was known for getting you home.
    Mr. Buckwheat, the B-26 Marauder was known as the "Widowmaker" due to its unusual characteristics for take-off and landing...
    On the early models, the wings were a little bit too short, causing the plane to stall if it landed too slowly... it had to be brought down with a landing speed of ~150 MPH, which was unusually fast for a medium bomber at the time. Later aircraft had wings about 2 meters longer, with an adjustment to their angle-of-attack, which brought the plane's characteristics closer to its peer aircraft.
    Regards,
    Gene

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    AND the props had too big a diameter to land on the make-shift Pacific theater runways. Used mainly in ETO.
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