Doug,
Great footage!!
I watched all the video’s and can now imagine how cramped it would have been in the bombers during flight, especially with a crew of 10.
By the sound of it you really had some trouble moving around in them.
Being in flight under constant danger of attack from German fighters and flak it must have been a hell of an experience, especially the guy in the turret under the belly must have had good nerves.
On Sept 18 1944 a B24 crash landed near my village in a village called Udenhout and there was only one survivor.
The plane was selected to lead part of the group to Veghel, Holland to drop supplies to the 101st Airborne.
The mission was not the 'milk run' many thought it would be.
Peter.

Peter, I have my walk thru with the B-25 medium bomber which will be
posted on this site soon. The B-25 , of course, was most famous for the
bombing of Tokyo and other Japanese cities on April 18, 1942, taking off
from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. At the show last month at the
Schenectady airport I met a pilot who claimed that in training and without
a bomb load the two powerful engines of the B-25 could take off in less than
100 feet. It seems hard to believe but that was this former pilot claimed.
I will also be going on a short vacation that will take be to Battleship Cove
in Fall River, MA where there is battleship and other naval vessels including
a PT boat. I also plan on visiting the USS Intrepid that just returned to
New York City port after a overhaul. Hopefully I can meet some more veterans
and get some more interviews.

Doug

Doug,
Be sure to take your camcorder because I heard they have some interesting stuff over there.
There was a famous PT boat called the PT-109, commanded by United States President John F. Kennedy.
This summer I watched an old navy movie on TV about  PT-Boats during ww2, don’t remember the name of the movie nor the actors but I think it was in the pacific.
My brother once build a scale model of the USS Enterprise and had it in his living room for years.
I will ask if he still has some photographs of it to post sometime.
For next year I’m planning a trip to Germany to visit the U599 at the U Boot museum at Kiel.
Also my 4 day’s trip to Normandie is booked and I’m really looking forward to this.
For this year a trip to Bastogne and Bois Jacques is planned for December.
I always experience these kind of trips like a little adventure.
Peter.

Peter, The PT movie you might be talking about is "They Were Expendable" starring Robert Montgomery
and John Wayne. Montgomery was a Lt. Commander during WWII and help direct the movie when
director John Ford became ill. I thought it was pretty good but you must remember it was filmed during
the war. Battleship Cove has a battleship, PT boat, destroyer and a submarine. I am looking forward
to see that along with the USS Intrpid. A few years back there was a documentary called the "The Day
of the Kamikaze" which was about a massive Japanese kamikaze attack on the US fleet in November
1944. A famous film sequence shows a low flying kamikaze plane going past the Battleship New Jersey
and then striking the Intrepid. That filming was done by my next door neighbor, Ed Schultz, who was a
combat photographer aboard the USS Independence. The USS intrepid was so badly damaged during
the war that the sailors called her the Decrepit.

Doug

Doug