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re: #192 Gus 802
B-24. :)
He volunteered for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and served as a B-24 Liberator bomber pilot in the Fifteenth Air Force, flying his plane, known as the Dakota queen for 35 missions over enemy territory[2] from bases in North Africa and later Italy, often against heavy anti-aircraft artillery, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross for saving his crew by landing his damaged bomber on a British airfield on Vis, a small island off the Yugoslav coast controlled by Tito’s Partisans. McGovern’s wartime story, including his island landing, is at the center of Stephen Ambrose’s profile of the men who flew B-24s over Germany in World War II, The Wild Blue.[3]
