Around 1940 the Air Force built a base at Courtland, Alabama to train people how to fly those great big bombers. I think they were called B-26's...anyhow, they were some great big airplanes, and had 4 big propeller driven engines (the Jet Engine had not been in production yet). I would be out in the field hoeing cotton and couldn't get anything done for watching those big airplanes lumbering around up there. Anytime you looked up, you could see 2 or 3, and there was a steady drone of those big motors. They never done anything like... make a bombing run or anything - just flew around, but I still had to watch them.
Along towards the end of the war (when they invented the P51 Mustang), I got to see one of the P51's fly over every once in awhile. Boy, those things were fast, and had a prop jet engine. I'm sure most of you have seen them on airliners - they just go faster, and have a different sound to them. Those things were really pretty.
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