PBS, Nova: “Last B-24”

Cool! Recorder ready. Thanks for the reminder.
 
Thanks, Badger...read this just in time. Coming on now...woo hoo!

Jim
 
Watched the tail end. Nice story. Amazing the resources out there still tying up theses loose ends. I was unaware of the effort being made on this front.
 
I just watched it on-line. One of the local PBS stations has it on their web site. Well done.
 
I didn't know it was on. I caught the last 20 min or so last night.

Earlier this summer, another B-24 gunner was returned to the US.

http://www.ftleavenworthlamp.com/news/20180726/missing-no-more---local-airman-returned

http://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Re...-during-world-war-ii-accounted-for-politte-v/

My connection to him is being grade-school classmates with his niece or grand-niece (some sort of family connection, I'm guessing he was her grandfather's brother or maybe her dad's older brother.) He was 19 when he was killed in 1943, about a year and a half before the loss of the Tulsamerican.
 
When they found the ring, and the story of the Tuskegee pilot, the families, the other bomber, the care of the storytelling...fascinating.
 
When I was looking for the episode on the PBS app - I noticed the next episode was on supersonic flight. It is also worth watching.
 
Eric Stoltz said:
When they found the ring, and the story of the Tuskegee pilot, the families, the other bomber, the care of the storytelling...fascinating.
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I agree. I also found it interesting to learn about the comparative survivability of ditchings in B-17s vs B-24s, in terms of the tendency of the latter to break up.
 
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