Bomber fly-by over the Shoreline Arts Festival

Over the Shoreline Center. Photo by Jerry Pickard.

SAN Photographer Jerry Pickard was taking shots of the Shoreline Arts Festival on Sunday, June 26, when he heard a familiar rumble overhead and captured these photos of a World War II bomber doing a fly-by.

Consolidated B-24-J Liberator.  Photo by Jerry Pickard.

He would have been more surprised if he hadn't known that the Museum of Flight was doing some preparation leading up to their event "Heroes of the Homefront: A Celebration of the B-17" on Saturday, July 16, 2011.

Fly-by over the Shoreline Arts Festival.  Photo by Jerry Pickard.

Jerry says that this plane is a Consolidated B-24-J Liberator, used almost as heavily as the B-17 Flying Fortresses in the European Theater of operations during WWII.