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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 ...
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 ...
To lighten aircraft, crew jettisons Mark 4 nuclear bomb casing over the Pacific Ocean from 8,000 feet (2,400 m). High explosives detonate on contact, large shockwave seen, 17 crew later bail out safely over Princess Royal Island, but five (the first to depart the bomber) are not recovered and are assumed to have come down in water and drowned. [11]
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 .
– 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.
(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 aircraft involved was a 74-year-old Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, military serial number 44-83575 (variant B-17G-85-DL) with civilian registration N93012. [4] The aircraft was painted as a representation of a different B-17G, [ 5 ] Nine-O-Nine , with military serial number 42-31909 (variant B-17G-30-BO), which had been scrapped shortly after ...