Mike Ullery | AIM Media Midwest Dan and, Janice Dana Ehrlich, along with Paul Bellamy, Andy Swinnen, and Greg Schafer, l-r, chat in front of B-17 <em>Champaign Lady</em> at Grimes Air Field on Monday during the first day of The Gather of B-17s event in Urbana. The Dana's father was a waist gunner in a B-17 during World War II. Bellamy, who is from England and Swinnen, who traveled from the Netherlands for the event, are both historians on the 401st Bomb Group, of which Champaign Lady was a part. Schafer is a volunteer for the Champaign Aviation Museum. The events of today lead up to the a reunion of the 401st Bomb Group later this week and the debut of the newly-restored B-17 <em>Memphis Belle</em> at the National Museum of the United States Air Force on Thursday.
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