Smoothly written and painstakingly researched, this is a fitting tribute to unsung heroes of the Greatest Generation. front wheel door, bomb bay (front & back) and the camera hatch at the end of the airplane. We flew a new B-24 to Italy by way of South America and landed in Manduria. (The official search was called off two weeks after the accident, with only a wing section recovered.) Wilber pieces together the life of pilot Keith Ponder through archival research and a visit to his relatives in Scott County, Miss., and vividly recreates the plane’s low-altitude flight over Oswego County after a “blinding snowstorm” left the crew “unable to communicate, unable to see, and running out of fuel after missing the airport on multiple passes.” Elsewhere, Wilber profiles locals who have spent decades scouring the bottom of the lake for the Gertie and other wrecks. Cemetery Listings Orders TAPS 450th History Missions Flown S2. The survival rates varied among different positions. Photo 4: The B-24 Hot Stuff flew her 25th mission on 7 February, 1943, three-and-a-half months before Memphis Belle. During World War II, crew members aboard B-17 and B-24 bombers faced the dangers of aerial combat.
Photo 3: The World War II crew of the B-24 Bomber Hot Stuff. The focus is on one such accident, the disappearance of a B-24 bomber known as Getaway Gertie in Upstate New York in February 1944, and the ripple effects on the crew members’ families and the community of Oswego, N.Y., where “war buffs and amateur divers” continue to search for the wreckage in nearby Lake Ontario. Photo 2: The B-24 named Hot Stuff that actually was the first bomber in World War II to complete 25 missions. Army Air Force pilots and crew members who died in stateside training missions during WWII. It is a four-engine, long-range bomber and carries a crew of six to eight men. At the height of World War II, a B-24 Liberator bomber vanished with its crew while on a training mission over upstate New York. Cut-away diagram of the powerful B-24 Liberator bomber. Journalist Wilber ( Under the Surface) shines a light in this poignant history on the more than 15,000 U.S. In Vanishing Point, award winning journalist and author Tom Wilber pieces together the largely forgotten story of the bomber, Getaway Gertie, and an eclectic group of enthusiasts who have spent years searching for it.
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