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Bombs Away! – B-26 Marauder memories

Kermit Weeks tucks in close for a stunning photo of the last airworthy B-26 Marauder. Weeks has owned this B-26 Ser. No. 40-1464 since 1992. (Photo by John Dibbs/Facebook.com/theplanepicturecompany)
The B-26 is a dangerous aircraft in a number of ways … The takeoff is long and the landing fast. A motor failure on takeoff would be extremely serious. But once in the air, the B-26 is the best handling multiengined [sic] plane I have ever flown. —Charles A. Lindbergh, “The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh” Journey to the sky I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and grew up in Lakewood, New...

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