"The Last of the Combat B-17 Drivers"

[Stoney]

I just got "The Last of the Combat B-17 Drivers" and it
looks to me that anyone interested the the 8th AF and
B-17s will want this. Its the biography of Col. Harold D.
Weekley, USAF (Ret.), a 398th Bomb Group pilot and the
last combat B-17 First Pilot of World War II to fly the
B-17 as pilot-in-command into the new millennium.
He was U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II, shoot
down and bailout over France, and escape and evasion. The
book has over 200 black and white photographs, more than
50 illustrations, eight appendices, an index and lots of
hard-to-find information.
AtlasBooks Bookstore, 30 Amberwood Parkway, Box 388
Ashland, OH 44805
Softback - $24.95 plus shipping and handling
Hardback - $39.95 plus shipping and handing
ISBN 0-9785980-0-8 (Soft back)
ISBN 0-9785980-1-6 (Hardback)



[jmkendall]

I guess that depends on how you define the term.

But; wasn't Dave Tallichet the last WW2 B-17 Combat Pilot to fly a B-17?

I wonder how many hours he had logged as PIC of a B-17?

As an aside when I was a Pvt, fresh out of AIT, and in my first unit. We went to the range, and everyone was required to qualify on the M-16. While sitting at the table cleaning my weapon, the oooooooooooollllllllddddd CW4 sitting across from me asked me how to disassemble the M-16. Turns out the last weapon he had fired was an M-1 Garand durring WW2. He had flown B-17s in WW2, then transistioned to Helicopters durring Korea.

It tickles the kids in my current Unit to think that I am old enough that WW2 vets were still in service when I enlisted.

Joe

[Zachary]

Hal was one of the primary pilots of EAA's B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" when it started touring, and still gets to fly it on occasion.