Posted on May 31, 2017
95-year-old Irvine veteran gets one more mission on a B-29
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Awesome story from the Orange County Register. I missed that paper but the National Post in Canada has some of the same story feeds.
95-year-old Irvine veteran gets one more mission on a B-29
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B-29 FiFi at Hagerstown Regional Airport last year. I was in awe at its size and the sound of its engines when it took off
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SN Greg Wright
You want awe, Colonel? Watch a C-5 take off or land. I swear to God you'll hold your breath.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SN Greg Wright - Made a Trip or Two in a C-5 Galaxy and more than that in C-141 Star-lifters.
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LTC (Join to see)
SN Greg Wright - The Whine of those engines even a couple of miles away is unique on takeoff! I was there at Fort Dix-McGuire AFB for my CGSOC in 2014/2015.
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LTC Orlando Illi
SN Greg Wright - actually Greg I flew over to Riyadh during Desert Shield on a C5. Quite an aircraft
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Thanks LTC (Join to see) for sharing the great news that 95-year-old Army Air Corps WWI B-29 Superfortress bomber pilot veteran retired LTC Jack Keene was a passenger on a flight of Boeing B-29 Superfortress named FIFI at Camarillo Airport on April 29.
I concur with his grandson Grant Keene that Jack Keene was probably upset that he wasn't able to fly that plane since in WWII he "piloted B-24s and B-29s in 50 bombing mission and flew 100 missions transporting supplies over the Himalayas."
Kudos to retired LTC Jack Keene and each veteran from WWII.
FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC Greg Henning LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown CW5 (Join to see) SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT MSG Andrew White SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Joshua Caldwell
I concur with his grandson Grant Keene that Jack Keene was probably upset that he wasn't able to fly that plane since in WWII he "piloted B-24s and B-29s in 50 bombing mission and flew 100 missions transporting supplies over the Himalayas."
Kudos to retired LTC Jack Keene and each veteran from WWII.
FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC Greg Henning LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown CW5 (Join to see) SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT MSG Andrew White SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Joshua Caldwell
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