The historical museum I choose to visit was the Palm Springs Air Museum which has been opened since 1996 and is a non-profit organization. I visited this museum on the 17 of November. The Museum boast thirty-eight aircrafts all from small fighter jets to massive bombers. As well as groups, people, and weapons that were significant in war times during World War Two. While their taking in all the different types of airplanes and how each one was used to help in the war, there was one airplane that caught my attention. For one this airplane couldn’t be missed even if you tried to not look at it. In its own separate hanger the B-17 Flying Fortress was so massive it was daunting to even look at. The B-17 wing span is one hundred-three feet and
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As in any war there will always be people and in this case airplanes that will always be remembered and go down in the history books. In the war a bomber would have to fly twenty-five missions before it could get retired from combat. “In mid-1943, the bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force were getting shot down at a very rapid rate. Morale reflected this.” (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress), but then there was the Memphis Belle. It was the first to each the outstanding number of twenty-five missions completed. There was even a movie documentary shot on the final combat mission of its career and then the twenty-sixth mission as well which was to fly back home to the states. The next airplane was just as valuable in the war efforts for it flew an amazing twenty-four flights, just one shy of its retirement! “In March 1944 this B-17G joined the 91st Bomb Group, at Bassingbourn, England. The crew named it Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby after the popular Glenn Miller song.” (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress). On May 24, 1944, on its last mission it was to forced to make an emergency landing after sustaining engine troubles. It was landed in neutral Sweden and the crew and airplane were interned. The plane was later recovered and put into the Wright Patterson AFB Museum in October
As in any war there will always be people and in this case airplanes that will always be remembered and go down in the history books. In the war a bomber would have to fly twenty-five missions before it could get retired from combat. “In mid-1943, the bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force were getting shot down at a very rapid rate. Morale reflected this.” (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress), but then there was the Memphis Belle. It was the first to each the outstanding number of twenty-five missions completed. There was even a movie documentary shot on the final combat mission of its career and then the twenty-sixth mission as well which was to fly back home to the states. The next airplane was just as valuable in the war efforts for it flew an amazing twenty-four flights, just one shy of its retirement! “In March 1944 this B-17G joined the 91st Bomb Group, at Bassingbourn, England. The crew named it Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby after the popular Glenn Miller song.” (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress). On May 24, 1944, on its last mission it was to forced to make an emergency landing after sustaining engine troubles. It was landed in neutral Sweden and the crew and airplane were interned. The plane was later recovered and put into the Wright Patterson AFB Museum in October