Thank you so much Doug...I told the Wife about your post..Her Father was stationed in England and served as a waist gunner on a B-17...so yeah, it meant a lot to Her regarding the honor of your post.....someday we would like to come over and wander around..
She holds her Fathers 'Worry coin' in her purse..Its a big English copper of some sort with a thumb groove worn into it...
FWIW, My Wifes Father was one of the 3 surviving crew members out of 10 on the B-17 'Devils Mate'...Unimaginable when looking at the pics how these things even flew to begin with..got home to England, so shot up you could drive a truck through it...He was guilty that he survived...Heavily alcoholic yet maintained a Family.... put his nose to the grindstone and suffered in silence until his death...
All these kids were nothing but farmboys....One day planting potatoes behind a team of horses and the next 30,000 feet running a Browning 50 cal out of a wide open window?....None of these guys expected to make it home alive...So thank you for the post..Told the Wife, see? Some folks have an appreciation for what your Father did...said, We should go to England someday and wander around...
