WW II planes at Local Air Port

All week long we've heard the sound of World War II bombers, and a P-51 Mustang (fighter plane) flying over Boot Key Harbor... and Marathon Keys.  It's been GREAT!
What a sound... there's just nothing that matches the sound of four large motors of a B-17.

there's also a B-24 Liberator bomber here...  They were very prevalent in the Pacific (late in the war).  My father (A.K. Perry) was on Okinowa, in the Philippines where they'd load a squadron of B-24's with so many bombs (to bomb Japan) that as the planes would leave the air strip (on the top of a lofty cliff above Na ha harbor), the planes would literally fall to near ocean height before they'd pick up enough speed, and lift to overcome their over-loaded weight.   Some didn't make it... and crashed into the sea...(if a motor failed, or didn't produce enough HP when needed...   

Low Altitude pass (B-24) over moored boats - Boot Key Harbor

Anyway... The B-24 that's here brought back some memories... and I remember seeing pictures from one of my uncles.. of B-17's coming back to Burma from missions with holes so large you could drive a truck through the air-frame, missing tails, half-wings missing, etc.
Wonderful aircraft...  
 
and of course the P-51 Mustang... that's doing high speed runs down the harbor... Wow.

B-17 Bomber

B-17 Bomber over Boot Key Harbor

B-24 Liberator Bomber taking off over Marathon Keys