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"SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 2 - Thirteen army flyers were killed today when a B-17 Flying Fortress, headed for Los Angeles from McChord field, Tacoma, Wash., exploded in flight over McClellan field and plunged 3000 feet to the ground in flames. Thousands of Sacramentans, startled by a terrific explosion, looked skyward and saw the crippled and ...
The Luftwaffe claimed that they shot down 101 bombers and 5 fighters shot down. USAAF records show that 60 B-17s and no fighters were lost but that between 58 and 95 bombers were damaged. [41] 14 October 1943 United States Army Air Forces Luftwaffe After the Second Raid on Schweinfurt, USAAF gunners aboard the B-17 bombers claimed to have shot ...
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II. Forty-five planes survive in complete form, [ 1 ] [ a ] including 38 in the United States with many preserved in museum displays.
That day, Ehrler for the first time flew the Me 262 operationally and claimed the destruction of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. [59] The next day, the Eighth Air Force again targeted various military installations and airfields in Germany. [60] Flying from Parchim airfield, Ehrler claimed another B-17 bomber shot down.
(Alternate sources claim one hit 1,500 ft (460 m) short and one was shot down, [20] and that one drone crashed killing one of the crew of two men). [21] Watten 6 August 1944 B-17 30342 [22] B-17 30212 (Quarterback) B-17 31394 Crews abandoned the missiles without complications; a few minutes later one lost control and fell into the sea. [23]
The 305th Bomb Group lost 13 of its 16 B-17s in minutes. [18] The B-17s were attacked after bombing by fighters that had refueled and rearmed (JG 11 downed 18 B-17s). [19] A total of 60 bombers were shot down by German fighters and flak and 12 bombers were damaged so badly that they crashed upon return or had to be scrapped.
In January 2019, a surviving B-17 (serial number 44-8543) operated by Erickson Aircraft Collection of Madras, Oregon, was repainted as Ye Olde Pub. [25] The plane is flown in airshows and to provide historic flight experiences. [26] Lloyd Jennings, a waist gunner on the B-17, was the last surviving crew member of the incident; he died in 2016. [27]
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.