Pilot Describes Flying The Airplane As 'Loud, Cold, Uncomfortable', But Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
It was loud. It was cold. It was uncomfortable. But to Russell Jones, it was beautiful. There are many memories that Jones, a World War II veteran, has of the heavy bomber Consolidated B-24 Liberator airplane, but one thing seems to stick out. "The Pratt & Whitney engines were damn good," the former tail gunner recalled with a confident laugh. "They kept us going all the time."
An MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 6 went in the central Red Sea Sept. 22, while operating with the guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110).
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