Tom's plane (and bomb) pix
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 10:45AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

From the family's visit to the Museum of the Air Force, Dayton OH:

B-18A nose. The great precursor to WWII workhorse B-17.

Mitsubishi Zero

B-25 with Jimmy Doolittle represented on the right.

Clearly, Alec Baldwin was a bit too tall to play him accurately.

The famous Doolittle silver goblets (all 80 of them) are missing from their display case. The annual reunion happened just last week in San Antonio.

Gotta wonder how many of the original crews are still alive.

Neat story: Disney Studios made 1,200 plane and unit insignias--free--during WWII, continuing a wartime cartooning tradition started by WWI ambulance driver Walt himself.

B-24 Liberator, with its famous plexiglass nose.

Fat Man replica

Little Boy

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