While on a tour of the SACS museum outside Omaha, I noticed a B-17, which is the plane service men trained for in Kingman during the war. I made it a point to take pictures of all the gunnery sots, frone, back, bottom, top and side. Gunners would train on shotguns to get use to shotting at a moving target. aThey also trained ground to ground with machine guns. They would finally training on air to air targets as lanes were towed through the sky.
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| B-17 |
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After the war the air base was closed and it becae a disposal center. Many B-17s came to Kingman to be scrapped. The most useful part was any fuel left in the tanks.m. The were then sliced for the metal.
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