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- Dec 20, 2003
but who's complaining 2 pages is longer then some
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Jank doesn't tea bag the ladies. He potato sacks them.
There's still plenty of surface area on the vertical stab and believe it or not you don't need that much rudder to fly a large multi engine aircraft. Directional control can also be achieved by adjusting the throttles on the running engines, even though the text said he had only one fully functioning engine...Hmmm. Wonder how accurate that is. Specifically if that vertical stab was that damaged. If so, that likely took some real flying to control yaw and bank angle with that engine out.
There's still plenty of surface area on the vertical stab and believe it or not you don't need that much rudder to fly a large multi engine aircraft. Directional control can also be achieved by adjusting the throttles on the running engines, even though the text said he had only one fully functioning engine...
You're getting me excited to start flying the TC-12!
There's still plenty of surface area on the vertical stab and believe it or not you don't need that much rudder to fly a large multi engine aircraft. Directional control can also be achieved by adjusting the throttles on the running engines, even though the text said he had only one fully functioning engine...
Okay, but remember the story that two other engines were severely damaged. One only able to put out "50%" power and the other subject to overspeeds. That's some serious flying FBJ. KUdos to that guy.
I think even in the damaged condition the b-17 could be a threat - how'd he know that a gunner wouldn't let go a burst at him?
Hi chingachgook, I am glad I caught your story on the last mission of the Dottie Jane, I myself have become interested in the story due to a History assignment my son had to do for his class. My son coinsidently asked my neighbor if he would grant him an interview since he was a war veteran. Hesitantly my neighbor agreed. My son and two other classmates went on over to his home with a camcorder in hand for the interview, my neighbor was surprized by the camera idea but went on with the interview. After about 3 hours my son and his group came home, although my neighbor is 85 he can talk and talk. I myself had to make several cd's, some for the school and I made one for my neighbor. As I was watching and listening to him talk, I could not believe what I was listening to. I had no idea that I had a WWII hero living next door to me. He has recently told me that for so long he has not wanted to talk about the war. I have recently spoke and asked him more questions about what happened, in fact I went over to his home today and just sat and listened to him tell me about the incident which occured march 6 1944 ( your fathers cousins Bday), He explained to me what happened, My neighbor by the way was the top turret gunner, He even showed me a piece of shrapnel that hit him on the back of his knee."comments: I was a tailgunner in WWII, ( 8th airforce) on the plane the" Glamour Gal". I flew 13 missions out of England over Europe. Our plane was in repair when we were called out on duty. We used the
"Dotty Jane". On our 13th mission, March 6th ( my birthday) 1944 to Berlin, we were hit by anti-aircraft fire over Berlin. Our radio man was blown out and 9 bombs, and 3 were wounded ( a waist gunner- Bob Benjamin, the top turret gunner- herbert Morris, and I in the tail.). The pilot flew us back to England, with only half the plane. The Dotty Jane never flew again, and it was my last mission due to wounds.
Pilot-Arthur Socolofsky
Co-pilot- hayden hughes
Navigator-Wray nHylton
Bomber- Charles Duncan
Radioman- Alton Moore
Ball Turret- Kenneth Olson
Waist gunner- Bob Benjamin
Waist gunner- Ralph Mertz
Tail gunner- Lyman Emrich
Lyman Emrich
447th Bomb Gp 708 th Bomb Sq
Aircraft: Glamour Gal
E-mail: [email protected]"