WWII B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber ride

555 Took a ride in a B-17 today. Only 5 passengers allowed us to move about inside the plane from the waist gunners positions with 50-cal machine guns in place, the ball turret, to the radio room, walking through the bomb-bay door area with bombs in place, past the pilots to the bombardier's position in the nose and the infamous Norton bomb site. While I already had great respect for the young men who flew and died in these planes during the war, crawling around the cramped quarters today was humbling.

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