Martin B-26 Marauder | WW2 Twin Engined Medium Bomber Nicknamed "Widowmaker" And "Flying Coffin"

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@Dronescapes 2 ай бұрын

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@Wahh 2 ай бұрын

My dad was a radio operator/top turret gunner in a B-26 during WWII. He said that the engine noise was deafening and he sat on a wooden seat for hours. He flew state side in patrols along the East Coast hunting submarines. He said the two fifty caliber machine guns wrapped around him and were awesome. During a targeting run held held his triggers for too long and cut the telephone poles in half holding the target. Caught he'll for it. Oops, My Bad.😅 He said (laughing) when (hollywood) moral boosting movies were made of bombers in action the radio operator always caught it first as you needed the piolet to fly the mission, the navigator to get you over the target and get you home, and the bombadier to drop your bomb load on target. He had to belly land on an icey runway in Kansas City and crushed his elbow in the incident. He didn't fly after that and was transferred to Scott Field, Illinois, where he was a radio instructor until he was discharged. He had to write the Secretary of War (my dad could write) pointing out that even though his right elbow was fused in a permanent straight position, he could run all day and never get tired as he worked with his Step Dad pouring concrete slabs (during the 30's and 40's all slabs were made with the relatively small concrete mixers and the complete slab was created by hundreds of wheel barrel loads. It would take 8 to 12 hours of non-stop work to complete a slab. There wasn't a lot of food during the depression so one could imagine the work had to be unbelievable. A fat cry from any labor today. He was a heel of a man who never let his emotions show, like all of the men of that generation. He was 39 when I was born and I only knew him when he was old and suffered from health problems. Using the G I Bill he finished school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas (then known as Texas Technological University). He earned a degree in petroleum geology and was hired out of school by Standard Oil and worked with numerous companies and kept his family well fed and happy. He was a life long amateur radio operator (W5GOS). He was a darn fine man above men and was proud h never smoked a cigarette or took a drink of alcohol. We lost him in October of 1983. God Bless You Dad. I Love You.

@Tunepa 2 ай бұрын

Wow. Salute to you and your father. Thanks for sharing this!

@jdory7693 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing! My father was in B24’s during the war and he was much like your father. They are missed!!!

@larryfinley9221 2 ай бұрын

I know you’re proud of him. So are we, now.

@topturretgunner 2 ай бұрын

That’s a good man. 🫡🇺🇸

@jonbalogh2077 Ай бұрын

We poured my garage floor using a mixer 17yrds LoL took a month off weekends with friends serious work out thanks for sharing his story 👍

@ImperialCrab 2 ай бұрын

Overwhelming evidence of why we called this “The Greatest Generation.”

@turmanlegalsolutions Ай бұрын

You mean Gen Z isn't the greatest generation?????? 😮

@theccpisaparasite8813 Ай бұрын

@@turmanlegalsolutions😂😂

@Darren4352 2 ай бұрын

To be honest, I've loved the B-26 as long as I've known about it even over the Mitchell. I've always seen the B-25 as capable and utilitarian but the B-26 is just drop dead sexy!

@Red-rl1xx 2 ай бұрын

One of my favorites! I've got a couple of models of B26s including "Flak Bait".

@johnorland9726 2 ай бұрын

My Dad Developed that Bomber at the Martin Plant in Baltimore MD in 1940

@incomudro1948 2 ай бұрын

My Father fought with the South African Air Force in WW2 I have a picture of him in front of a Marauder named " Bliksem" somewhere in Egypt.

@WonneKroesPiano 2 ай бұрын

Bliksem is Dutch (/South African?) for "lightning." I can imagine the reasons for the name ...

@DeadDanganronpaGuy 2 ай бұрын

They have a B10 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. I love the blue and yellow theme they used in those aircraft in that time period.

@jimmywalker4060 8 күн бұрын

There is also a B-26 there as well. Flack bait is at the national museum in DC

@tnargdonald Ай бұрын

I just found an original flight manual for a B26 today going thru my great uncles pilot cases.

@Dronescapes Ай бұрын

That is awesome!

@CMINCOGNITO 2 ай бұрын

very cool aircraft, im still going for the mosquito but this is a heck of a plane

@victordavis7461 2 ай бұрын

My grandfather was a Tail gunner on a B26. Its name was Big Ass Bird! 319th bomb group I do believe.

@Dronescapes 2 ай бұрын

Bless him

@jordanfaulkner5598 7 күн бұрын

I mean, it is a big bird

@Larry-jv6he 15 күн бұрын

wow!how did they remember all that.awsome men

@scottlaughlin2447 Ай бұрын

Toward the end of World War II, my father hauled these airplaned from the Tulsa factory to Long Beach, CA. The trucks were smaller in those days. He drove a special Ford tractor with two V8 engines and pulled a special trailer that was 50' x 8' and 14' high. Details are sketchy.

@richardrichard5409 Ай бұрын

The low rate really isn't a thing, by the time of it's introduction all bomber losses were dramatically lower. It was also used on far more milk runs😎

@christopherslaughter2263 2 ай бұрын

Anyone else notice the footage of the B24 Mitchel scattered thoughout

@tommytwotacos8106 Ай бұрын

Did I hear the narrator refer to Rommel's Army as the "African Corpse"? That would have been an appropriate descriptor regarding their condition by the end of their campaign and specifically after Second Kesserine, Second El Alamein, and Gazala. The mopping up in Northern Tunisia that ran from Second El Alamein through the Marakesh Line was more of a formality than anything else, especially with Rommel back in France and assigned to bolstering defenses along the Atlantic Wall. Still, Afrika "Corpse", narrator dude? Are you sure about that?