Wings of Freedom Tour
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The view from the bombadier station on board a B-17 Flying Fortress is awe-inspiring, as if you are just sitting in a chair out in the sky, with almost a 180-degree feild of vision. Here the bright autumn colors of the trees are clearly visible through the plexiglas nose cone.BLAINE FALKENA/Staff Photographer
Walter Woods, a World War II veteran, looks at the signs placed in front of a B-24 Liberator Wednesday afternoon at Hazleton Municipal Airport. The plane and three other vintage aircraft - a B-17, a B-25, and a P-51 - were at the airport as part of the Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour flying museum. Woods flew 28 missions in the Eighth Air Force's 486th Bomb Group, 834 Squadron as a ball turret gunner; 12 in a B-24 and 16 in a B-17 during 1944-45.