Re: 8AAF B-17 "Hultcher's (or Hulcher's)Vultures"
Thanks to all who replied. My cousin was a waist gunner on this ship. However, he did his 25 and was rotated home to become a gunnery instructor as a Tech Sgt and then a 2nd Lt, armament officer. No ship from his base had done 25 at the time. He was there when the first ship to do 25 came back to the field and morale soared. So he wasn't with the ship when she went down. He was posted to a B-29 base (Wendover Field) as a squadron armament officer to train for the 20th AAF, but luckily the war in Japan ended. I'm doing a Revell-Monogram 1/48 B-17G and want to do Hulcher's Vultures.
Thanks again.
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