Larry McDonough piloted B-17s on 25 missions, Dick Irwin looked through bomb site on B-25s.
Larry McDonough and Dick Irwin flew aboard a B-17 Thursday. It might have been one of the safest flight either ever had aboard a World War II bomber. McDonough piloted B-17s on 25 missions out of England during the war while Irwin was a navigator/bombardier aboard B-25s.
Hosted by Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 905, the B-17 will be at McKinnon St. Simons Airport through Sunday offering ground tours and flights. Before they flew Thursday afternoon, McDonough and Irwin talked on the apron at the airport.
Some of the feeling for that long, hard war lingers... (see more at: http://jax-cdn.com/)
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Terry Dickson - http://jax-cdn.com/
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