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“Heaven Can Wait” B-24 Crew Recovery from the Bottom of the Pacific
On March 11, 1944 , in the midst of WW II, a B-24 bomber with the nose art that read "Heaven Can Wait" took off from Nadzab airfield in the South Pacific. They were loaded with eight 1,000-pound bombs and on a mission to weaken Japanese antiaircraft batteries along the coast of the island of New Guinea. They came under heavy fire as they closed in on their first target. The crew of another U.S....
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