I was sitting here reading threads on RCU when I heard the sound of big round engines in flight. I turned around and looked out the window in time to see the Collings Foundation B-24 and B-17 fly over the house in a loose formation headed for the Addison airport in North Dallas. It looked like they had come from Ft.Worth and the vicinity of the old Consolidated/General Dynamics/Lockheed plant.
It brought back instant memories of my uncle, Captain H.B. Shields and his time with the two aircraft. He instructed in B-17s before we got into the war and then flew both during the war before being shot down in a B-24 in April of 1944. He and three others survived the bail out and were prisoners of war until the end.
His B-24 was the Gremlin Castle so named because there was a perpetual list of squawks on every flight that the plane made. Ironically he was shot down in another plane flying a partial pickup crew.
Its funny how round engines can bring back the memories of 60 years ago.