Favorite WWII Plane?

Mine, P-38 or B-17

My dad, who retired from Boeing, worked as a Special Projects engineer from 1960 to 1995.

He helped restore the Boeing B, the B17 they restored a few yrs ago. He took me down there one and i crawled all over that thing. Met a guy, who must have been 90-95 yrs old, who actually drew the blue prints for it. His name was on them. I got one thing to say.

Those kids had some balls flying combat missions in any of those planes. The cockpit in no bigger than the front seat area of your car really.

I crawled back to the tail gunner position. He is sitting on a bicycle seat, on top of his ammo, with some boiler plate in front of his chest and his lap.

I cant imagine sitting there, with another airplane 40 or 50 feet away shooting at you. Those guys had serious balls to do that.

He also helped restore the Boeing 307, twice, after it went in the water on Alki.