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B-24A Bomber Flight Over Duluth & Superior
Duluth, MN
My Father Earl paid for us both to go up on a flight on this historic aircraft. Thank you, Dad!
July 20, 2008

The nose gun on the B-24
Our flight engineer
Pulling the bird out to the taxi ramp...
Earl and Tony preparing to board
Colin took these photos for us
Our pre-flight breifing about emergencies and exits and how and where we can move about in the aircraft when the Loadmaster tells us.
Looking aft from the four rear crew seats
Earl buckling in
The view from my rear crew seat
Our Loadmaster
He just installed the rear fire extinguisher, although there was nothing that could burn in the rear besides us...
Closing and locking the rear door after raising the "pogo stick" that keeps the tail from dropping when unloaded and a bunch of civilians get inside
Airborne!
The Coppertop Church and East Skyline
Ever heard the saying of "Having Your Ass in a Sling?" The rear tailgunner of a B-24 originated that saying! Earl has his ass in a sling...
Enger Park Golf Course
The view through the rear deck belly
Tailgunner view
Imagine Berlin, Germany, 1944. This is what the tailgunner saw from behind his "Ma Deuce" M2 .50 BMG machine gun. If I was 18 in 1944, I would have taken this position.
As much fun as it would be to run through 27 linked feet of .50 BMG at the railyard below, this Ma Deuce had no real ammo ready...
The bomb bay at midship. They had a few replicas here, but you can see how they racked them to fall through the bomb bay doors below.
The view from the front of the bomb bay forward to the nose gunner position.
Entering the upper flight deck from
the bomb bay lower deck
Our fabulous crew of experienced Colonels from the Commemorative Air Force.
The AMSOIL Center
The Blatnik Bridge
The Blatnik Bridge and the
North End of Superior, Wisconsin
The Blatnik Bridge and most of Superior
The Photographer having his photo taken
by The Loadmaster
My Dad, Earl, with a huge grin on his face. I never stopped smiling either!
Lester Park Golf Course. It looks pretty small from the air! 27 holes fit in there.
Lakeside and Lester Park
Lakeside, focal point right at 47th Ave E. and Superior Street at the Sammy's Pizza corner
Ordean Middle School
Ordean Middle School and the lower holes of Northland Country Club golf course
Ordean Middle School and Northland Country Club golf course
I can see my old house from here!
Seriously, I can, and here zoomed in you can see my sister's open garage right in the center...
My parent's driveway is visible
at the upper left of this photo
Holy Rosary Church and Elementary School, and Duluth East High School
UMD from above
That's 21st Ave. E. on the right, angling north to Woodland Avenue near the center.
The Rose Garden and Leif Ericson Park in the foreground, all the way up to UMD and St. Scholastica at the top.
St. Mary's Hospital
St. Mary's Hospital
Old Duluth Central Building
Observation Hill
I can see Drew's garage in this photo! Just left of the quad-based tower in the foreground.
Observation Hill
Enger Park Golf Course again
Enger Park Golf Course again
The Gangsta 'Killin Field' District - Lincoln Park
The ball fields in West Duluth
Denfeld Senior High and
Public School Stadium
Murphy Oil Refinery
Murphy Oil Refinery
Nemadji River
Check out Earl's grin! Too much fun!
   
 
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