The mystery deepens. New evidence reveals the iconic damage to the B-17's ball turret was not from a fighter's bullet, but from flak shrapnel during the bomb run over Magdeburg. This video uses pilot ...
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He fell 20,000 feet without a parachute: The miraculous WWII survival of B-17 gunner Alan Magee
In January 1943, during a brutal daylight bombing raid over the heavily defended German U-boat base at St. Nazaire, B-17 ball ...
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Ball turret gunner in Liberator bomber shot down over Germany at 19 turns 100 Leonard Dowling, a turret gunner on a B24 bomber shot down over Germany in 1944, and liberated in a 700-mile march, ...
Given the B-24's low ground clearance, the turret was retracted into the body of the plane during takeoff and landing. "There were a lot of people who could not fly that position," said Bertolino, ...
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