Bombers,
Aircrews, Interviews and the "Music That Helped Save The World."
"Bombardier's Lounge" WWII Big Band Jazz from KRML 1410 AM, 92.5 & 93.7 FM Cable, Carmel-By-The-Sea Fridays, 1:00 PM — 3:00 PM Pacific Time  Collings Foundation B-24 at the Monterey Jet Center, May 2004 (Gallery)  |
"CAPT. MIKE" takes off every Friday afternoon at 1:00 PM for flights back to the sounds of the 1940s Big Bands and "The Music That Helped Save the World." From the same station that Clint Eastwood played a DJ in "Play Misty For Me"—a station now located in the Eastwood Building (San Carlos Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in Carmel-By-The-Sea)—the music celebrates the Big Band Jazz of World War II. Complete with realistic cockpit sounds and "chatter" of the bombers that waged the heroic air war. The show's name conjures an aircrew in a Quonset ready-shack, listening to a radio on the side of a sod runway somewhere in Britain about 1943. Or the cramped space in the nose of a B-17, B-24, B-25 or B-26, on a mission (in this case to bring music to a troubled world). Click here to download a "Bombardier's Lounge" B-17 cockpit or bombardier's nose position desktop image. Allow time for these files to download, they are detailed and larger than standard photos used on the web.
Click on the B-17 at
the left for the show's
"Take Off" theme...
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"Bombardier's
Lounge" also has its historic research side, with
interviews with aircrews that flew the legendary historic aircraft now
only seen displayed in major air shows. Their stories are a chance to
listen, touch and feel living American history.
 B-25 pilot, Howard Brunn, and close friend and P-38 and P-51 fighter escort pilot, Bob Littlefield, at a recent interview in Carmel. Click here for Howard Brunn's account of crew passes to Rome, where you coudn't wear Bombardier's Wings...and his whole B-25 crew became "Pilots" on the town. |
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