[greatdefender]

God Bless You & Thank you for your service of this great nation!

[Tainan]

Thank you for posting this story.

[SatinDoll]

What a wonderful story! I’m glad he had a long and fulfilling life after surviving the air war over Europe.

[Professional Engineer]

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[Liberty Valance]

Wonderful story. They don’t make’em like that anymore. Thanks for posting.

[Shadowstrike]

God Bless you sir. Thank you for my freedom.

Semper Fi.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. Friday afternoon at his new home in Summertree near Hudson, Nick Radosevich, 92, slipped into his old flight jacket, which still fits. Marilyn's sister, had paid $425 for a ticket so he could fly on the last remaining operable B-24. The nonprofit Collings Foundation, which renovated the plane, would be offering tours and rides at the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Airport. Word got around quickly that the old man with the wooden cane had flown during the war. Nick told his story to TV reporters and then climbed aboard Witchcraft. In tight quarters, he managed to pull himself past the 50-caliber waist guns and up some steps toward the cockpit. It is restricted to most visitors, but not this man. Chris Bahan, 33, who helps fly Witchcraft around the country, helped Nick into the pilot's seat. Outside on the tarmac, Marilyn beamed as she watched her husband reaquaint himself with an old friend. He hadn't been in a cockpit in some 65 years. He sat there for a half-hour, explaining all the gadgets, recalling some battles... Nick and Marilyn strapped on seat belts and the B-24 roared down the runway, heading west over the Gulf of Mexico. A half-hour later, it returned to the airport. Nick Radosevich beamed. Others surrounded him, wondering about such things as memories and emotions. "I forgot how loud it was. That's why I wear these,'' he said with a smile, pointing to his twin hearing aids. "This was a good plane. We did a lot of damage.'' To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[GWfan]

God bless him. My uncle was a B24 navigator. He survived bombing missions over Germany and lived to be 74, God rest his soul.

[forbin]

Thanks for posting this story! How did you come to know about Lt. Radosevich and the Lucky Penny?

The story is particularly meaningful to me. My uncle was his co-pilot aboard both aircraft: Lt. Luther E. Clark, USAAC.

[andy58-in-nh]

Fantastic story - thank you for sharing it (though I had same problem here as others with a suddenly blurry screen). I saw this very same B-24 last year when it made its last visit to my hometown of Manchester, NH. I was standing in a parking lot early on a Saturday morning about a mile from the airport when I heard the deep roar of engines. I looked up and there she was, at no more than 1500 feet, huge, gleaming in the sun and still beautiful after all these years.