THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE! 😮

search, your feelings……… :dev2:

Luuuke I’m your faather!

YB-4O if my memory serves me, it was intended to be an escort platform. It carried 2 fifty’s in each of the waist positions, two top turrets, as well as the ususal, armament i.e. tail, belly, radio operator, and cheek blisters in the nose. But I understand from reading is that they were slower than the bombed up 17’s, and the program was scrapped.

They even tried it on a few B-24’s with the same results.

Not to keep bringing up an old thread, but while talking to my dad, he was stationed at Upper Heyford from 1975-1978. He told me while living in Bicester, that at one time it was a large dump for Luftwaffe wrecks. Base Commander expressed that no military was allowed to keep anything from the old scrapyard, however one of the locals that worked on base with my dad, had a piece of prop with a bullet hole in it.

Does anybody have any pics of any scrapyards near or in Bicester, post WWII? 😎

B-58 HUSTLER, F4D SKYRAY, F-89 SCORPION, F3H DEMON, F7U CUTLASS to name a few.

now, all we need is a group-forum hug! 😉

Jule’s, Strategic Air Command was Jimmy Stewart’s film. I think you are thinking of Command Decision. Also what about Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket? Was’t it based on the batlle at Hue?