My friend Jim took my old boss Vance and I out to the Air Museum at Malmstrom AFB, MT. Â Here is some of what we saw.
The Norden Bomb Sight. Â This was so Top Secret the bombardiers had to destroy it before they bailed out…after WWII they were surplus junk that sold for pennies…
This is the few of “East Base” as Malmstrom AFB was called in WWII. Â I don’t know about the Japanese plane, but all those Russian/USSR marked planes are correct. Â East Base was THE major Lend-Lease hub for transferring aircraft and other stuff to Russia. Â A little over 8,000 planes went through here in WWII!
A typical WWII flight suit.
WWII quarters. Â It must be an officer’s: there is only one bed!
~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>
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