Eiffel Tower, Paris, August 1945 ...

[Mark Allen M]

Next week will make this exhibit (in link below) almost exactly 79 years ago.
https://flickr.com/photos/125162117@N04 ... 304687277/

[Hamilton H-37500]

Amazing set of pictures. Thanks for sharing that.

[Hooligan2]

Didn't an American fly underneath the Eiffel Tower around then?

(I know an American Bonanza did in 1981, stopping briefly at Pontoise afterwards to drop off a French cameraman before heading to Shannon and then back to the US!)

[Archer]

This story perhaps: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sto ... tt-bf-109/
The Wiki article about Overstreet debunks this story, stating that he did not start telling it until late in his life. A Bonanza 'recreated' this in 1984 according to another website. At least we have evidence of this feat:

[sandiego89]

Wow I counted 75 mission markings on the B-17 "the Eagles Wrath". Assume the kill marking on the P-47 are for the entire Fighter Group.

Thanks for sharing

[mike furline]

Wow I counted 75 mission markings on the B-17 "the Eagles Wrath". Assume the kill marking on the P-47 are for the entire Fighter Group.

Thanks for sharing

https://b17flyingfortress.de/en/b17/41- ... les-wrath/

https://b17flyingfortress.de/en/b17/42- ... les-wrath/

https://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1942_5.html
107180 (MSN 22095) Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 15Mar44. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29Mar44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Apr44.
410th Bomb Squadron [GL*K], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 11Apr44 Named ‘The Eagle’s Wrath (left side)/Lucky Rebel (right side)’
for display in the USSTAF [United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe] Military Equipment Exhibition under the Eiffel Tower, Paris Aug-Sep 1945.
The original ‘The Eagle’s Wrath/Lucky Rebel’ was 41-24524. 42-107180 was scrapped shortly after the exhibition.