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To: LibWhacker

If the crew was found alive...Did nobody bother to ask them how they got off the plane without parachutes?


9 posted on 10/16/2020 11:53:32 AM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: TheDandyMan

Often B-17s would carry a double number of chutes stacked on each other. The bottom chute would protect the upper chute from flak shrapnel.


11 posted on 10/16/2020 11:57:48 AM PDT by diatomite (Soros delenda est and his flying monkeys too.)
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To: TheDandyMan

B-17s carried extra chutes at times.


28 posted on 10/17/2020 5:42:29 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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