The B-17 Flying Fortress made its mark on history and became among the most famous aircraft of the Second World War.
Christmas Eve, 1944, behind enemy lines near the Germany-Belgium border at an altitude of about 25,000 feet, 20-year-old ...
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Boeing's B-47 Stratojet Goes Cold War Spying: The story of the RB-47Originally designed as a medium bomber, the B-47 also had a lesser known and more secretive role in the Cold War, serving in ...
Matz (tail gunner), Cpl ... of about 25,000 feet, 20-year-old Loyola New Orleans law student David MacHauer was manning two machine guns from the belly of a B-17 bomber nicknamed the “Miss ...
David MacHauer, second from right, and his fellow crew members of the Miss Bea Havin’, a B-17G bomber of the 487th ... his squadron came from several 20 mm exploding shells that crippled the ...
MacHauer rotated his gun turret toward the tail of his airplane and saw a large formation of fighter planes quickly approaching. For a fleeting second, he thought perhaps they could be friendly ...
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