Pete Wright's WWII Photo Page

Tech. Sgt. Walter "Pete" Wright

442 Squadron, 320th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force.

U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS, Turret Gunner on a Martin B-26 Marauder (Medium Bomber)

 

This web page is a collection of photographs that my great Uncle Pete Wright sent to me after we began an e-mail dialog about his World War II experiences. He mailed his WWII photos to me, which I scanned and returned to him. We followed up with a series of e-mails wherein he provided commentary to go along with quite few of his photos. Sadly, he passed away before we finished our project. However, we worked on the site live, so he saw our effort in progressand was well pleased to share his photos and experiences.

 

Uncle Pete is my great Uncle, the brother of my maternal grandmother, Ruth Wright Livaditis, of Atlanta Georgia.

Martin B-26B-10-MA (Marauder Mk 11)
Type: seven-seat medium day bomber
Power plant: two 1,920-hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-43 radial piston engines
Performance: maximum speed 282 mph at 15,000 ft; climb to 15,000 ft in 13 minutes 0 seconds; service ceiling 21,000 ft; range 1,150 miles with 3,000 lb of bombs and 961 gallons of fuel; maximum ferry range (overload fuel) 2,850 miles.
Weights: empty 24,000 lb; normal take-off 37,000 lb
Armament: 0.5-in machine-guns with 3,950 rounds, plus a maximum bomb load of 5,200 lb

 

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Copyright 2000-2003 by Jeff L. Glaze and "Uncle Pete" Wright

  September 28, 2007