B-24 Turret Gunner and Machine Gunner Training 140606-F-AH510-587
Savannah's Combat Readiness Training Center honors the men, American and Allied, who stormed ashore 70 years ago today, D-Day, on the beaches of Normandy, France. In 1943, Savannah's Combat Readiness Training Center was known as the Field Training Site, where men of the Army Air Corps learned to be Bombardiers and Turret Gunners on the B-17s and B-24s and went on to fly in this great expedition to free Europe with the Mighty 8th Air Force and the Mighty 15th Air Force. The pictures depict men of the Army Air Corps training to be Turret Gunners and Bombardiers. These same Army Air Corps flyers and many more like them went on to fly missions during D-Day and the continuing expedition to free Europe, but for many of them, their initial training was conducted at the Field Training Site, now commonly known as Savannah's Combat Readiness Training Center, Georgia Air National Guard.
- Date
- 1940
- Photographer / author
- 1st Sgt. George Burnsed
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 860 × 652 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Air Force).
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"B-24 Turret Gunner and Machine Gunner Training 140606-F-AH510-587" (1940). 1st Sgt. George Burnsed, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B-24_Turret_Gunner_and_Machine_Gunner_Training_140606-F-AH510-587.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 5892.
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