Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
Brown's B-17 began its ten-minute bomb run at 8,320 m (27,300 ft) with an outside air temperature of −60 °C (−76 °F). Before the bomber released its bomb load, flak shattered the Plexiglas nose, knocked out the #2 engine and further damaged the #4 engine, which was already in questionable condition and had to be throttled back to prevent ...
Colin Purdie Kelly Jr. (/ ˈ k oʊ l ɪ n / KOH-lin; July 11, 1915 – December 10, 1941) was a World War II B-17 Flying Fortress pilot who flew bombing runs against the Japanese navy in the first days after the Pearl Harbor attack. He is remembered as one of the first American heroes of the war after ordering his crew to bail out while he ...
(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 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.
Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On 6 November 1987, an Air Malawi Shorts Skyvan (registered 7Q-YMB) was shot down while on a domestic flight from Blantyre, Malawi to Lilongwe. The flight plan took it over Mozambique where the Mozambican Civil War was in progress. The aircraft was shot down near the Mozambican town of Ulongwe. The eight passengers and two crew on board died. [76]