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The Richland High School Class of 1993 donated a mural of the B-17
Bomber "Day's Pay" to honor those workers who paid for the
bomber.
The students raised $21,000.00 to get the 3200 square-foot mural of
the Day's Pay painted, lighted, and maintained.
To claim this cache just e-mail me with the 2 years mentioned on
the bronze plaque.
The "Day's
Pay" is a B-17 bomber bought for the Army Air Corps by the
Hanford Engineering Works employees, each of whom donated a
full day's pay.
"Give a day's pay and send a bomber on its way" was the campaign
slogan that inspired the 51,000 workers to contribute nearly
$300,000.00 over a 2 month period to purchase a B-17-G for the
nation's defense effort of World War II.
The plane was manufactured by Boeing at Seattle and delivered to
the U.S. Army Air Force on July 12, 1944. In a ceremony at Hanford
Airport on July 23, 1944, Hanford workers christened the plane
"Day's Pay".
The plane later served with the 8th Air Force in England.
In March 1945, its was decorated with the Air Medal, five oak leaf
clusters, and two major battle stars.
The "Day's Pay" flew a total of 67 missions and survived the war
and was considered by those who flew it to be "a lucky plane"
because no crew members were ever lost.
See also the article
by Carol B Roberts
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Keith Maupin in his article The
Bomber, the Bomb, and the Bombers: Myth, History, and
Traditions makes a very convincing argument that the Richland
High nickname "Bombers" has nothing to do with the B-17 bombers
depicted in this mural but refers to the atomic bomb that the
student's parents had helped create.
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