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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.
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 ...
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. [ 60 ] 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 .
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 ...
On 20 December 1943, at the age of 21, he was sent on his first mission when he flew the Ye Olde Pub over Bremen, Germany. Although the bombing mission of a Fw 190 Factory was considered successful, the Ye Olde Pub had sustained damage to two of its engines during the bombing run, leaving it unable to keep up with the bomber formation and the ...
A Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided in midair with a B-17 Flying Fortress during the Wings Over ... The B-17G Flying Fortress was equipped with 11 to 13 machine guns and capable of a 9,600-pound bomb ...
(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]
– 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.