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Kodiak Alaska Military History
The official web site of the Kodiak Military History Museum
Collings Foundation Bombers
visited Kodiak 2001 July 1-3
This side of the Consolidated B-24J (N224J) has names of restoration contributors. Old Women's Mountain in left background. |
1944 Boeing B-17G (N93012) |
The other side of the B-24 has ART! Me in the red sweater. |
Bomb hangar detail. Note the actuator engages two levers in the hangar. |
This chart in the bomb-bay detail how to hang the various combinations of different size bombs. |
Detail charts on how to hoist bombs into the bay. |
Same charts. |
The B-24 waist gun ports are open. Note the roll-up bomb bay doors. Both planes are equipped with very real looking mock-up guns. |
The B-24 tail gun is in a turret, unlike the B-17, and the gunner can get from his position into the rest of the aircraft while airborne. |
The B-24 can be entered through the ladder in the tail or up through the bomb-bays. |
The waist gun ports on the B-17 are covered with plexiglas. |
Old Women's Mountain and me in red sweater. |
A very cramped tail gunner nest in the B-17 where he has his own hatch. The tail gunner cannot get into the forward part of the aircraft in flight. Me. |
There is a large hatch in the roof of the radio room of the B-17. |
The nose of the B-17 is very busy. There is a big dome for the bombardier, a lower turret for guns, two side guns, a top turret, and in the middle of all this, the cockpit. When you climb up that ladder you must still crawl around. It has a very small interior. |
The Liberator's callsign is N224J. |
Also present was Chris Kinter's 1942 T-27 Boeing Stearman "Kaydet" trainer biplane serial number 42-15869. This one was used by the Canadian Air Force and is painted accordingly. It has one 220 HP Continental R-670-5 radial engine. Chris is a Kodiak resident. Rides were available in all aircraft. |
Pricilla Messner, a famous local aviation artist spent a large portion of July 2 painting the B-17. |
Baine and Francis Cater of Kodiak inspect a B-24 engine. |
B-24 and T-27. |