 | B17| Stories Discuss B17 in the World War II - Aviation forums; Originally Posted by jhor9
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04-05-2006, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by jhor9 Can anyone put an avatar of me on this site? If so, and you send me your e-mail I can send you a picture. I don't know how to do it. | You can send it to me in a PM (private message). I can get it reduced in size to fit the parameters and get it to you.
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04-05-2006, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by evangilder You can send it to me in a PM (private message). I can get it reduced in size to fit the parameters and get it to you. | Your e-mail address doesn't accept send e-mail http://www.vg-photo.com | |
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04-05-2006, 11:22 AM
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#18 | | the old Sage
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Country: | Jules go up to the left and click the red evangilder. look at the box and find send evangilder a private message. when you get to that then attache your small photo to send to Eric. He then can reduce it for you, sending it back so you can place it with your profile.
does this make sense ?
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04-07-2006, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Erich Jules go up to the left and click the red evangilder. look at the box and find send evangilder a private message. when you get to that then attache your small photo to send to Eric. He then can reduce it for you, sending it back so you can place it with your profile.
does this make sense ?
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04-07-2006, 02:30 PM
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04-08-2006, 11:40 PM
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Very cool and welcome to the site - my question...
How far forward was the pilots seat from the top turret?!?!
| LMFAO Joe..... That was great....
Welcome Jules....
My questions revolve around the Fw-190A-8's and their increased 30mm armament.... Were u guys ever briefed and/or warned about this kites attack profile and destructive power, or was it just another FW???
It seems that some pilots were briefed and some werent...
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04-09-2006, 10:12 AM
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04-11-2006, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 Jhor, Im curious about the training that the pilots had.
Can you give us some idea's on the actual number of hours you and your colleagues actually flew during training. Was it more or less than the official required hours?
How did you get selected to fly B17's?
Thanks! | I enlisted Dec 8 1941 and requested flying in the army air corps, I was appointed as an aviation cadet. each segment of the following lasted about 8 weeks.I and many others were put on ice for a few months because of the large influx of recruits First was preflight at Maxwell fld ,AL then primary at Camden SC flying P19 or 17 Stearman. At basic the BT13 at Shaw fld Sumpter SC, then AT 10, twin engine at Moody fld Valdosta, GA. Each phase was about 60 flying hours.At that time between primary and basic there was about 35% washout rate, the reason was they couldn't advance fast enough in the time allotted,.I got my wings Dec12, 1942 at Moody fld. At that time their was a great need for bomber pilots, we were losing the war. | |
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04-11-2006, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 Jhor, Im curious about the training that the pilots had.
Can you give us some idea's on the actual number of hours you and your colleagues actually flew during training. Was it more or less than the official required hours?
How did you get selected to fly B17's?
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I enlisted Dec 8 1941 and requested flying in the army air corps, I was appointed as an aviation cadet. each segment of the following lasted about 8 weeks.I and many others were put on ice for a few months because of the large influx of recruits First was preflight at Maxwell fld ,AL then primary at Camden SC flying P19 or 17 Stearman. At basic the BT13 at Shaw fld Sumpter SC, then AT 10, twin engine at Moody fld Valdosta, GA. Each phase was about 60 flying hours.At that time between primary and basic there was about 35% washout rate, the reason was they couldn't advance fast enough in the time allotted,.I got my wings Dec12, 1942 at Moody fld. At that time their was a great need for bomber pilots, we were losing the war. | |
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04-11-2006, 02:30 PM
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| Thanks JHOR. At what point were you selected for bomber training and how did you end up in B17's. Was a whole class assigned the same type of aircraft to fly, or did you get split up for some to fly A20's, some for B24's, some for B17's, etc.
One other question. The student pilots who washed out, did they get another chance to qualify, or were they sent to bombardier or navigation school?
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04-11-2006, 04:52 PM
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Nice to have You here around. May I ask what Your first impression about the B-17 was?
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04-16-2006, 05:02 PM
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Jules can you tell us why the diamond back design with the Y was used on the tail surfaces ? also in regard to the tail diamond, I see from the 99th bg web-site that some B-17's had a black diamond with white Y and others in same formation a white diamond with black Y. differences in squadron ?
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04-17-2006, 04:32 PM
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I would like to know which famous targets did you get to bomb if any and have you been in a raid where there were any Me-262? Wish mission would you never forget?
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04-23-2006, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by syscom3 Thanks JHOR. At what point were you selected for bomber training and how did you end up in B17's. Was a whole class assigned the same type of aircraft to fly, or did you get split up for some to fly A20's, some for B24's, some for B17's, etc.
One other question. The student pilots who washed out, did they get another chance to qualify, or were they sent to bombardier or navigation school? | I don't remember but I'm quite sure that at graduation when I got my wings, our class was split up and we were sent to various bases for training in different operational aircraft
During my time in 1942, washouts were sent to nav and bombardier schools,
Later all cadets had to take what was called stanine (?) tests which determined what schools they would be sent to. The latter part of 1944 after a stint as pilot instructor I requested nav school, I had to take the stanine tests , same as cadets, but since I was a student officer I asked for nav school only, i eventually earned nav wings and was dual rated, | |
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04-23-2006, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by delcyros Greetings!
Nice to have You here around. May I ask what Your first impression about the B-17 was? | I was overwhelmed, on my orientation walk through to the cockpit, my instructor said to his 3 students "take a good look because in 10 days you will take a blinfold test, you will touch each instrument or object that is called off". 10 days later we all had no problem with his test. | |
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