Recent content by Leonard Porter

I flew the B-24 in Combat in the Pacific. My aircraft was "Ruff Knights". number 550. My ground crewman did the Nose Art. The B-24 was faster, could carry more bombs and fly further than the B-17. Later I flew the B-17 in the States and the B-29. I much preferred the B-24 over The B-17. The...

That is a photo of my B-24, Ruff Knights. It was assigned to the 38 Bomb Sq. (30 BG) we flew missions from Oct.1944 thru Jan.1945. We were the first crew to fly Ruff Knights and named her. We flew 40 missions; 34 from Saipan and the remaining 6 from Guam. We flew bombing missions against: Iwo...