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B-17C, 40-2047, of the 7th Bomb Group, en route from Salt Lake City, Utah, to McClellan Field, near Sacramento, California, enters a winter storm over the Sierras, stalls at 18,000 feet and spins in, coming down near Georgetown, California, [11] ~30 miles NE of Placerville. Eight of nine crew successfully parachute down, pilot is KWF.
– B-17F-27-BO, 41-24620, part of the 360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, was on a daylight bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France when downed by flak. The ball turret gunner, Alan Magee , his parachute damaged and unusable, free fell from 22,000 feet, survived and became a POW.
The broadcast warned that there was a bomb in the vehicle, a 15-minute countdown elapsed, [11] [14] and the speakers switched to snippets from the 1964 song "Downtown" by Petula Clark. [16] [17] Responding to reports of shots being fired at around 5:30 am, two police officers arrived at the area. Though they did not hear any shots, they ...
More than 10,000 B-17s were produced, but only a few survive today, according to Boeing. The B-17G Flying Fortress was equipped with 11 to 13 machine guns and capable of a 9,600-pound bomb load.
During a joint U.S. Navy–U.S. Marine simulated close air support exercise near Pauwela, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, the pilot of a U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless, BuNo 36045 [169] of squadron VB-10, [170] initiates a slight right-hand turn and deploys dive brakes in preparation for a bomb run, but his aircraft is struck by a second VB-10 ...
On March 8, 1944, Rosenthal's crew, nicknamed Rosie's Riveters, completed their 25-mission combat tour, although the B-17F (s/n 42-30758) that they usually flew bearing the same name was shot down while being flown by a different crew during the February 4, 1944, mission to Frankfurt, Germany. The crew returned to the United States, but ...
17 April 1961 – A Cuban Revolutionary Air Force Douglas B-26 Invader was shot down by anti-aircraft fire from the invasion fleet over the Bay of Pigs. [ 69 ] 17 April 1961 – A Cuban Liberation Air Force Douglas B-26 Invader was shot down by a Cuban Revolutionary Air Force Lockheed T-33 and crash landed at an airstrip in Playa Girón .
Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was a United States airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress. [1] He was featured in the 1981 Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 10 most amazing survival stories of World War II.