Here's just one of many examples: Nose blown off by flak (bombardier and both pilots vaporized); the interior turned in a 200+ mph wind tunnel. Imagine seven others pinned to the plane as it plummeted, knowing they were dead. 
I understand that the highest casualty rate was among the USAF. Entire B-17 crews did not make it alive.
The support staff in the USAF is far safer than those supporting the Army infantry. The other 17-33% of the casualties were still something. In the air force if you aren’t actually flying in a combat air craft you are normally pretty safe, or at least it seems to me.
Now granted a lot of the men ended up as prisoners of war, but one historian noted that Kamikaze squadrons had a lessor casualty rate until fighter escorts (p-51s) could accompany bombers throughout the mission. Completing 25 missions was so extraordinary in 1942 and 1943, that the aircraft and crew of the Memphis Belle returned to the United States to sell war bonds. During the war, the 8th Air Force based in England suffered more than 26,000 dead compared to the Marine Corps which incurred nearly 20,000 killed for all its campaigns in WW II.
Well, there goes Word spell check again. It should say “post” and not “most”.
I understand that the highest casualty rate was among the USAF. Entire B-17 crews did not make it alive.
—————the numbers show our Army Air Force deaths far exceeded our Marines, by 28,000 plus. My father was an infantryman, machine gunned three weeks before the wars end, cut the Ruhr pocket in half. His most treasured award was not his bronze star, but his Combat Infantrymans Badge......ALL deserve much honor, the majority were young draftees, rightfully called the Greatest Generation. Rest In Peace, Dad, you would never recognize our county today.
Airborne All the Way, 1977-1980.
USAAF. There was no USAF at the time.
Here's just one of many examples: Nose blown off by flak (bombardier and both pilots vaporized); the interior turned in a 200+ mph wind tunnel. Imagine seven others pinned to the plane as it plummeted, knowing they were dead.