Eduardo Perez thanks for sharing

I just want you to have a great weekend

My dad also graduated in June '41 from high school in Chicago - after training as a pilot and getting something like 10 hours flight time, his entire class was sent to gunnery school. He ended up as a B-17 waist gunner with the 305th bomb group of the 8th Air Force (England/Europe). I wonder if they knew each other. Unfortunately, my father is no longer alive.

+Bryan Cockel I'll be seeing him Saturday. what's his name? I'll show him your response. amazing men in that era.

Lowell Cockel. He grew up in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. My grandmother worked at the University Of Chicago. Send me an email to bcockel@comcast.net and I'll send you a picture of him from his time with the 305th..

Amazing, a great generation that kept us free.

Marty is precious soul who admitted he was afraid, but he and his generation fought anyway, and kept us free in their day. He and buddies should be honored and remembered for their service and courage, God bless them. His personal account of the after effects of the Nagasaki A-bomb is a rare story. And every story he told was interesting too.

Yeah, the kid doing the interview was killin me. Suffering through his interruptions to hear the man's story but wishing I was in the room so I could cuff the kid's ear and scold him about having some respect.

adarch1 thank you! He is amazing

Absolutely the Greatest Generation !

Not true, planes that had been overseas and saw combat that were shot up weren't transported back to the states, it wasn't worth doing they were scrapped on site or abandoned. You wouldn't want to train new pilots in "war weary" planes, which was the term for them, even planes that had seen combat without receiving a single bullet hole after so many hours of combat were listed as war weary, in some photos of combat planes overseas you'll see "WW" painted on the tails, after so many hours of combat time the air frames were classified as no longer fit for combat duty due to stresses on the structure, they're a candidate for the wings getting ripped off in a high G maneuver, planes classified as war weary were relegated to messenger duty and other low stress jobs, the last thing you'd want to do is put a pilot in training in an aircraft that's a prime candidate for having it's wings ripped off should the pilot trainee panic and pull a high G maneuver, they lost enough pilots in training and didn't need to increase their chances. Planes that were used for training stateside never left the states and combat stressed aircraft never returned to the states, all those B17's and P47's that were used during the war were scrapped overseas at the end of the war, with new models of aircraft in development at the end of the war and the colossal task of returning that many aircraft that had been stressed from combat anyways they were simply left overseas and scrapped. None of the WW2 era aircraft that you see flying in airshows are combat veterans, they're either training aircraft that never left the states or aircraft that saw post war service in other nations or perhaps US service but never saw the stresses of combat, despite the fact that they'll paint the name of a famous bomber on the nose of an airshow B17 it's not the actual plane from the war.

And he wasn't in the Air Corps, six months before Pearl Harbor in June of 1941 it's name was changed from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), it's a popular misconception that it was called the Air Corps in WW2 but it wasn't, it was called the Army Air Forces during the entirety of WW2. There's 2 things that lead to a lot of confusion though, first is the fact that logistical support, and I believe the training arm also, kept the title of Air Corps, so you'll see the graduation pictures of classes of pilots and navigators and the whatnot from training and at the bottom of the picture in fine print it'll say Army Air Corps, but that's only because it was the support aspect that took and printed the picture, the pilots themselves are actually in the Army Air Forces. Secondly, and this creates a lot of the misconception that it was called the Army Air Corps during the war, is that a lot of the pilots who were in it before the war and name change kept referring to it as the Air Corps despite the name change, that really leads people to believe that it was still called the Air Corps during the war because they figure if the guy was "there and done that" then it must have been called the Air Corps, but the fact is it was called the Army Air Forces during the war, just like when I was in the Army in the 80's and the field meals were changed from C-Ration's to MRE's, despite the change for a time we kept referring to the new meals as C-Ration's despite the fact that they were MRE's, just because we were saying something out of habit however doesn't mean we were still eating C-Ration's, which we wished we were because those early MRE's were unpleasant to put it mildly but that's a story of it's own. I'm really surprised that the interviewer refers to it as the Air Corps because being someone who is doing this research you'd think he would know the correct term for what is was actually called during the war.

It had a centrifugal mechanical supercharger and a turbocharger. A two stage system

@@flightforensics4523 Thank you. I didn't know it also had a mechanical one as well. He was still talking about the rotational speed of the turbine

+neil borodkin Without hesitation, I might say that anyone who has a flown an aircraft loaded with 8 heavy machine guns and an engine capable of 2400 horsepower would greatly miss that when it's over

Marty I miss you..Eddie Perez

@@dukecraig2402 The engine has a mechanical supercharger also between the pressurized carb and engine,hence the intercooler and not aftercooler

@@vikinghauler3244 I've never known of an exhaust driven turbo-charger and a mechanical supercharger on any P47? I believe they are only turbo supercharged. Could you expand on your comment?

@@richardrichard5409 The r2800 has an integrated mechanically driven supercharger. It also has an exhaust driven supercharger (what we now call a turbocharger. Was called turbosupercharger then). It was dual-charged in the P47. That's what helped it run 72 inches Hg late in the war.

No they did not! I wasn't until months after deployment to England that the new "Paddle Blade Props" were installed.

@@paratrooper7340 I wasn't referring to the paddle props, only the number of blades.

Yeah this interviewer sucked

No he did not try and make his interviewee look foolish. He was entirely polite. He managed to illustrate his own lack of knowledge a couple of times. And his timing was off now and again. But I think the old boy enjoyed himself. He had the chance to talk about the subject which is almost everybody's favourite: himself. People of that age are always delighted when young people pay attention to them and their lives.

A video game.