you're right (with one small correction)
| March 12, 2018 11:21PM |
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SunTzu_vs_Camus
Clark Gable after his wife Carol Lombard died also became a bomber pilot (kinda wanting to die he was so broken up bout her death)...what a great group of honorable movie stars that served when they could easily get out of it.
Gable wasn't a pilot though, he was a gunner.
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Gable spent most of 1943 in England at RAF Polebrook with the 351st Bomb Group. Gable flew five combat missions, including one to Germany, as an observer-gunner in B-17 Flying Fortresses between May 4 and September 23, 1943, earning the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts. During one of the missions, Gable's aircraft was damaged by flak and attacked by fighters, which knocked out one of the engines and shot up the stabilizer. In the raid on Germany, one crewman was killed and two others were wounded, and flak went through Gable's boot and narrowly missed his head.
Capt. Clark Gable (third from right) prepares for a combat mission with the crew of a bomber named “Jennie.”
