[Karl Spooner]

Despite hundreds of hours of newsreel footage and its appearance in innumerable documentaries and big budget Hollywood films, however, no one has ever managed to capture what it was like to actually fly a mission in a B-17

I think this give one gives a good idea what it was like. It was one DANGEROUS situation to be in. I think half of all B17's made were shot down. Those cannons the Germans had ripped them to pieces and those R4M Rockets late in the war were even more devastating. I wouldn't want to be in one.

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[21twelve]

Some German General figured out fairly soon that they would lose the war. Said something like “We shoot one of their planes down, and they send 7 more to replace it!”

Of course lots of young men were also shot down. RIP.

[Oatka]

The first part was German gun camera pics, the last hairy one was from a post-WWII anti-aircraft missile test.