Dedicated to the airmen who lost their
lives in World War II
July 4, 1944 (2021)
Welcome to Bombardier's Lounge
Broadcast fromKRML AM/FM
radio & global internet from the Eastwood Aerodrome,
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
237 missions from 07/10/2004 - 3/24/2009 from the
Bombardier's Lounge archive.
Chester Ng Graphic
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The last KRML mission of
"The Music that
helped save the world!"
Dedicated to the airmen
who lost their lives in World War II
was flown Friday, March
20th, 2009.
four and a half years...
237 missions.
Thanks for your
loyalty and being such
such great fans of
Bombardier's Lounge
and WWII Big Band Jazz:
the music that
Helped save the world...
It was an honor to serve you.
You can still Click
"Missions on demand"
(scroll
down) at the old radio below
And here's an Aastwood
Aerodrome photo
of Capt. Mike by Dave Silva
Dave Silva photo
"Over...and out."
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Capt. Mike
Waiting to meet up with John Steinbeck
at Steinbeck's Monterey adobe, December 9, 1944...
William Souder photo
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Calling the world-wide
Bombardier's Lounge crew...
come in crew...
Click here for
an "encore" transmission
of the September 26, 1944 (2008) mission!
(stand by for future encore missions)
That's an order!
Capt.Mike
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ATTENTION:
Check this out!
click
here
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Lt. Eddie
Janis, Cabernet Squadron,
provides this link to the
b-24
Willow Run Story (YouTube).
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Veterans and the
greatest generation
don't need reminding of December 7th, 1941.
There was a world war today's Americans
need to be reminded of, or educated about.
And then we were unprepared again...
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A MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND TREAT:
KODAK MOVIE OF V-J DAY IN HONOLULU!
CLICK
HERE AND ENJOY...
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Recommended Short Rwad:
"Finding
Fred"
An e-book by Timothy Smith
Click for its YouTube
trailer.
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Bombardier's
Lounge Video
of a B-25 Hot rideVideo by Capt. Mike
(Loading
time worth the wait)
This coastline could be
Normandy, Holland, or Denmark.
It's California between Moss Landing and
Capitola on Monterey Bay:
Up the
coast as TAIL-GUNNER,
TOP
TURET-GUNNER, and NOSE GUNNER
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Click here
for an "Encore" transmission
of the SEPTEMBER 26, 1944 (2008) mission!
(stand by for future encore missions)
That's an order!
Capt.Mike
you can still Click
"Missions on Demand"
(scroll down) at the
old radio below
And here's an Eastwood Aerodrome photo
of Capt. Mike by Dave Silva
"Over...and
out."
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And who would think, that after
decommissioning, the most connections to
Bombardier's Lounge WWII Big Band Jazz
are still coming in from www.baidu.com
(the Google of China!)
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Here's
an account of an Apollo
11 Moon Landing
and Junior
Officers Revolt at
Strategic Air Command Headquarters
(Offutt AFB, Omaha Nebraska, July 20,
1969
in which Capt. Mike took part.
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A "Naked
Phanny" (Nakhon Phanom
Royal Thai Air Force Base,Thailand)
1970 memoir of David Walton.
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Broadcast (and streaming internet audio) from KRML,
the Carmel, California, jazz radio station made famous
by Clint Eastwood in "Play Misty For Me."
Isackson
photo
With Captain Mike
(Formerly: Capt. Michael Kenneth Hemp, U.S.A.F.)
e-Mail me: mkhemp@thehistorycompany.com
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And from the "War that Never Was":
Monkey Hotel special ops missions to
the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos,
and and aerial recon of Cambodia
Chester Ng "Capt. Mike"
photo!
Check out Capt. Mike's new Amazon.com 5-star Sci-tech Novel!
"End of lies, the Nadjik
Pheromone"
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Broadcasting
weekly missions, September 10, 2004 March 24, 2009
(Click on B-17 to hear the
show intro. Click on the old radio below for recent
missions)
Captain Mike flies back into the 1940s at the controls of
Bombardier's Lounge
each Friday afternoon, 1:00
PM to 3:00 PM (Pacific Time), for another mission
back into the nostalgic big band music of the 1940s:
"The music that helped save the
world"celebrating
and commemorating
the men and the aircraft that took to the air during World
War II.
Click here for an
actual B-24
Bombardier's Lounge take-off
Collings
Foundation photo
Broadcasting live from
the "cockpit" of Bombardier's Lounge, the show
can be heard locally (Central California Coast) on KRML
1410 AM,
on 92.5 FM Comcast cable in Monterey County, and
world-wide
on streaming internet audio at www.KRMLradio.com.
Missions surviving flack and fighters can be heard
on-demand
by clicking the old radio, below.
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CAPT. MIKE'S
HOT
LIST
Squadron News & Events
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HOW
TO LISTEN TO BOMBARDIER'S LOUNGE ON YOUR COMPUTER:
Click here for more
Bombardier's Lounge WWII Big Band Jazz
broadcast on KRML:
"Radio you gotta see!"
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MISSIONS ON-DEMAND!
Click on the
radio!
If
you missed a few missions, check them out here:
(missions surviving flack and fighters)
The entire 2-hour flights are on
streaming MP3!
Thanks to the Desert Rat Squadron of the
Bombardier's Lounge
KRML Desert Air Corps, Maj. Clarke Isackson,
commanding.
Shows posted subject to Flack and Focke Wolfe 20mm damage to
radio room.
Bombardiers' Lounge is a production of The
History Company, in association with
Isackson Productions, Scottsdale-Rio Verde, AZ.
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Captain Mike's favorite
WWII links:
(If you can, tell them
"Capt. Mike and Bombardier's Lounge sent you.")
(Click here for a List of Favorite Links)
E-mail here to
add your site to the Bombardier's Lounge WWII site list
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To the boys
flying "The Hump"
(Here's a great
link to the China-Burma-India "CBI's")
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The MAIL BAG!
Letters to
Bombardier's Lounge
from our crew around the world.
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NEW!
Eastwood Aerodrome
Supply depot
with Quartermaster's Choice
A growing collection of
WWII Aero Memorabilia.
Click HEre
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WELCOME
TO THE NEW
"JAYHAWK
SQUADRON"
(WWII
HISTORY CENTER,
EL DORADO, KANSAS)
of the
BOMBARDIER'S LOUNGE U. S. ARMY AIR CORPS
"Lt.
Allen Cooley" commanding.
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WAR
IS HELL!
CLICK HERE
WITH REVERANCE
FOR THOSE WHO DIED IN THE SKIES IN THE
1940s,
FIGHTING TO KEEP THE WORLD FREE.
WARNING:
YOU MAY NEVER FORGET
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE.
Gun-camera from a German ME-109 raking a
B-17 with cannon fire.
(Allow time to load)
And a
suicidal
Luftwaffe
attack on a solo B-17
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"The Death of the Ball Turret
Gunner"
From my Mother's sleep I fell
into the state,
and I hunched in it's belly till my wet fur
froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from it's dream
of life,
I woke to black flak and the Nightmare
Fighter.
When I died, they washed me out of the
turret
with a hose.
Randall Jerrell- 1945
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ATTENTION
ALL CREWMEMBERS!
Capt.
Mike was the MC and WWII Big Band
music source for
the 8th Annual Marina
Air
Faire, Saturday, October 14,
2006.
Isackson
photo
There was a short break
from announcing the Air Faire
for a B-25 low-level, off-shore
sortie up the coast,
past the stacks at Moss Landing, to
Capitola and back.
Take a look at these clips from
tail-gunner, top-turret and
bombardier-gunner's seats on the
B-25 "In The Mood":
"In
The Mood"(photo) Piloted by
Bob Klears
(Hot
Flight Offshore VIDEO)
You may experience
loading delay on video: but it's
worth it!
Up
the coastfrom the tail gunner
seat
Up the coastmore
from the tail gunner seat
Top-Turret
gunner's view, back down the coast
Nose-gunner,
Bombardier view
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FROM THE
SUBLIME ALLIED COMMANDER:
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Listen to Win
WWII air memorabilia from sources like
The American Air Museum in Britain
www.americanairmuseum.com
Posters
Patches Pins and More
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AIR
CREWS
Click here for AIR CREW
CHATTER (Interview clips)
Click here
for AIRCREW GALLERIES
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WWII AIRCRAFT
TOURS
The Collings Foundation Wings
of Freedom Tour cities and dates.
The Winners of the cross-country
Repositioning
Flight
from San Luis Obispo to Monterey on May 11th, 2007,
from KRML's
Bombardier's
Lounge WWII Big Band Jazz:
B-17 "909": Joe Scarr, Eugene,
Oregon
B-25 "Tondelayo" Dave Nelson, Carmel
Valley, California
B-24 "Witchcraft" Jeffrey Weldon, Santa
Clarita, California
Congratulations to our winners and thanks to
all of you that entered.
For more info: www.collingsfoundation.org
or on the Central Coast, call (831) 883-4142
or the Collings
Foundation (800)
568-8924 for reservations.
Click here to see the B-24
"Witchcraft"
take-off from San
Luis Obispo:
(large file;
allow time to load)
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B-17 "909" B-24
"Witchcraft" B-25 "Tondelayo"
|
|
HERE
ARE PHOTOS OF THE PASO ROBLES TO MONTEREY
REDEPLOYMENT FLIGHTS ON MAY 17TH, 2006.
"Wings of Freedom" at
the Monterey Peninsula
Airport
May 17-19, 2006with
the addition of the B-25 Tondelayo.
Click Here for a look at the
new book
Calculated Risk: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy
Doolittle
by the
Granddaughter of Jimmy Doolittle.
She and her father flew in the B-25 "Tondelayo"
on the "Wings of Freedom" Monterey to Hollister
repositoning flight.
CLICK
HERE for a look at THE
B-25 site on the net, as the Kaiser Boys fly from
Monterey to Holister on the re-positioning flight, with Jonna
Doolittle Hoppes
aboard, and her father,
John Doolittle, in the right seat! Compliments of the Collings
Foundation and BombardiersLounge.com.
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EAA, (Oshkosh, WI)
B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" current U.S. Tour Schedule
(Photos from
Salinas Municipal Airport, California: April 25th and 26th, 2006)
PHOTOS
OF "ALUMINUM OVERCAST" AT SALINAS
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BOMBARDIER'S
LOUNGE
EDITOR'S CHOICE
WAR MOVIE THEATER
Fighters and Bombers
"At The Matinee"
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/MATINEE.html
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PIGEONS IN COMBAT'S
5TH ANNIVERSARY
CLICK
HERE
Documentary Film
released on DVD:
A short film by Al Croseri
http://pigeonsincombat.com/
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DAYS OF INFAMY
and the
AMERICAN REACTION
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BombardiersLounge.com is a
production of The History Company
www.thehistorycompany.com
July 4, 1944 (2020)
Capt. Mike
KRML
Links
WWII Aircraft Tours
Member, Post 512
"The Jimmy Doolittle Post"
Carmel-by-the-Sea
California