Flak Bait was a Martin B-26 Marauder that flew an unmatched 207 combat missions over Europe. Repeatedly torn apart by anti ...
Looking out from the bombardier’s position of a B-26 Marauder, Chris Billings narrates the story of this type of medium World War II bomber. He’s the on-air talent featured in three TV programs ...
Chris Billings is shown in the waist gunner position of Charly’s Jewel, a B-26 Marauder from World War II at the MAPS Air Museum in Green. He is wearing an authentic World War II uniform with the ...
Warfare demands technological advancement. Just as numbers, intelligence and tactics can make all the difference, so too can the brilliant minds charged with developing and maintaining a technological ...
MANCHESTER – On June 6, 1944, Kenneth Karen was up well before dawn to receive orders along with the rest of the crew of “Miss Mary,” the twin-engine bomber on which he served as flight engineer and ...
In the spring of 1945, at a forward airfield in Belgium, ground crews prepared the 449th Bombardment Squadron for another ...
"I'm in this plane about to go miles and miles across the ocean, with a good chance I'm not returning. I'm in a cramped space that's hot. If I'm not going to be shot down, I'm going to die of heat ...
A PBS television three-episode series on the Marauder Men who flew the Martin B-26 Marauder during World War II will be screened beginning on Veterans Day. The docuseries called “Marauder Men: In ...