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James Leonard with the Yankee Lady at Willow Run Ann Arbor 2012

The Wild Blue Yonder

B-17 over Ann Arbor

by James Leonard

posted 8/4/2012

A child of the fifties, I grew up on World War II movies like Twelve O'Clock High and Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Before I wanted to be John Lennon and Keith Richards, I wanted to be Gregory Peck or Spencer Tracy. And I always wondered what it would be like to soar into the wild blue yonder in a B-17.

 
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