The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX

[flaps]

 

[Catmando]

What's this guy smokin'?

 

[KBayDog]

What's this guy smokin'?

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Colorado ANG?

 

[flaps]

dunno what he's smoking but (i think) that's a b-17 and it never ceased to amaze me that the cockpit is just about the same size as that of a c-172.

 

[jmcquate]

dunno what he's smoking but (i think) that's a b-17 and it never ceased to amaze me that the cockpit is just about the same size as that of a c-172.

It's a B-26

 

[flaps]

you're correct. THIS is a b-17

 

[jmcquate]

you're correct. THIS is a b-17

It is, a G model and she made it home.

 

[Catmando]

It was a B-26 Marauder, as jmcquate first said.
The smoke was probably a Lucky Strike, unfiltered.

 

[flaps]

just amazing and sad... my dad, a ww2 vet and most of his generation had no idea. i think it was the mid '60's when the first warnings started showing up.

 

[jmcquate]

Didn't MREs have a small pack of smokes in the day?

 

[Rocketman]

Didn't MREs have a small pack of smokes in the day?

I don't know about MREs but C Rations had a pack of 5 cigs in each meal. In trade they were worth a can of pound cake and a can of peaches almost everytime.......

 

[Flugelman]

I don't know about MREs but C Rations had a pack of 5 cigs in each meal. In trade they were worth a can of pound cake and a can of peaches almost everytime.......

We would get the Green Pack Luckies in our C-rats in the early 60s.

 

[Fog]

I was born in '43, & we called cigs "Cancer Sticks" when I was a kid. Jus' sayin' . . .

 

[Malo83]

From the Wix board, Vintage Ready Room pics
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47672

 

[707guy]

From the Wix board, Vintage Ready Room pics
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=47672

Great pictures there - more interesting in some aspects than pictures of aircraft from that time.