"They dug up parts of his plane from World War II,” Paul Loring said. “He bailed out and was a prisoner of war. And 80 years later they sent us the parts."
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
In July, the Loring Air Museum received airplane parts from Major Charles Loring's plane that was shot down by German forces in 1944 over Belgium.
Family members of Loring joined together for the unboxing -- even Loring's 92-year-old brother was in attendance.
"They dug up parts of his plane from World War II,” Paul Loring said. “He bailed out and was a prisoner of war. And 80 years later they sent us the parts."
"They dug up parts of his plane from World War II,” Paul Loring said. “He bailed out and was a prisoner of war. And 80 years later they sent us the parts."
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How cool is that, I have ties to Loring as a former resident Airman. Now a days, since it's closing, I still venture up there to volunteer for the Land Speed Trials/Loring Timing Association....(Loringtiming.com as well as facebook).....and I still drop in on the good folks at the museum.
ReplyDeletePS: Loring AFB was also 'the' closest base to Europe, a SAC base......I was there as part of the rebuild prior to our gov't shutting it down, it was gold to our security as well as allies......the 2 .5/8 mile long runway which is almost 6' thick is still fine, we had a B-52 land on it last year for a weekend. Talk about another strategic mistake........smh.
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