It took me a minute to figure it out, because I thought of the Flying Fortress. Which kids today will also know nothing about.
In the late 1950’s, all the kids in the neighborhood used to climb over a 3 strand barb wire fence & played in 12 B17’s that were parked at an airfield waiting to be picked up for scrap. All the flight controls still worked. Everything else except the seats & engines had been taken out. To us,the planes were huge. And they were some really big fun.
It took me a long time to figure out, because, like you, I thought that they meant the B-17 Flying Fortress.
My uncle flew the B-17 in the European theatre during World War II.
Aw shipp! It’s not just the kids of today that would not know what a B-17 was. When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I had a cousin my age, who did not know what D-Day was, let alone what the Dieppe Raid was. Of course, the edjumacashun system under the leadership of Rocky Waterhole (Pierre Trudeau), tried, and succeeded, in getting rid of recent Canadian history. His (or Fidel Castro’s) spawn is continuing the tradition. That is what communists do. Both were and are lapdog of the CCP.
Obviously, Olivia was a Liberator kind of girl.
She never said not to play B-24...
I saw one in action--fighting a brush fire in Whittier, Calif. in 1967.
Long ago, there was an episode of the “Shoe” comic strip, with an old guy at the bar asking Shoe, since he was up at the jukebox, to put on “B-17” for old time’s sake. Which he did...and there came a LOW flyover!
It took me a minute to figure it out, because I thought of the Flying Fortress. Which kids today will also know nothing about.
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I totally blanked on it too and thought “what? Kids don’t know about Bingo?”
Same here!
My only problem, was connecting her {Olivia Newton John} to any military (whether as a member, married to, etc) what so every. I couldn't come up with anything. I'm guessing that would be a good thing. LOL!